Remove useless footer showing up in text

[Maarten1999]

Hello,

A recently imported epub book has a footer inserted in the text in the wrong place. is it possible to remove this footer automatically>

it Look like :

<p class="calibre2">bla bla bla bla bla THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE BOOK 7/10/08 11:14 AM Page 152</p>
<p class="calibre2"> <i class="calibre4">152</i></p>
<p class="calibre2">THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE <i class="calibre4">B </i> OOK</p>
<p class="calibre2">More bla bla bla bla.</p>

I would like to look it like

<p class="calibre2">bla bla bla bla bla More bla bla bla bla.</p>

The book has 900 pages. I'm cleaning it up manually but all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[theducks]

That looks like it was a PDF conversion that has more than the usual from PDF problems (see sticky in the Conversion forum).
IMHO If some place sold it to you like that, return it and ask for your money back.


If you converted from a PDF you bought (the bit about reading the sticky still applies), you really will need to learn basic REGEX (<<that is a clue to search MR for tutorials. )
From your example, this is a very dirty case. Even if it was a fairly clean case. You are looking at least a dozen passes (varied search terms) for the removal. And a bunch more to do the 'joins' after the removal.

IMHO 90% of those are Search->Eyeball the find -decide Replace Next or Search (skip the replace). Repeat for the term till the end. New term. Do it all again.
This could take less than 1hr if you are experienced with REGEX term crafting.

Then you do your 'Join' set of S&R's to clean broken paragraphs.

OTOH If this was a OCR scan PDF, there are going to be tons of random errors that turn that hour into much longer because you need to do the find BY all the variations