Text in converted epub is bold, underlined - How to make regular?

[frank14612]

I've converted an image-only PDF, via OCR, to RTF fairly well. But a problem for me is that the converter mistakenly saw all the plain, regular text in the PDF as bold, and in the RTF all the text is now bold. I don't want to just use search and replace to change all the bold text in the RTF to regular, since that would change all headings, titles, etc., which should be bold, also, and I would rather not go through the ~200-page document and change each paragraph of bolded text to regular.

I could be persuaded to accept the bold text in the EPUB, but my further problem is that now the EPUB generated from the RTF, using Calibre, shows all the text as both bold and underlined. I don't understand how a simple conversion can make the "assumption" that bold text should be underlined too.

Can someone think of a simple way or a workaround to get the plain (bolded) text in the RTF to show up in the EPUB as regular text (not bold+underlined)? Just for info, I'm not familiar with the concept or use of CSS or style sheets.

Thanks!

Frank D

[theducks]

Originally Posted by frank14612

I've converted an image-only PDF, via OCR, to RTF fairly well. But a problem for me is that the converter mistakenly saw all the plain, regular text in the PDF as bold, and in the RTF all the text is now bold. I don't want to just use search and replace to change all the bold text in the RTF to regular, since that would change all headings, titles, etc., which should be bold, also, and I would rather not go through the ~200-page document and change each paragraph of bolded text to regular.

I could be persuaded to accept the bold text in the EPUB, but my further problem is that now the EPUB generated from the RTF, using Calibre, shows all the text as both bold and underlined. I don't understand how a simple conversion can make the "assumption" that bold text should be underlined too.

Can someone think of a simple way or a workaround to get the plain (bolded) text in the RTF to show up in the EPUB as regular text (not bold+underlined)? Just for info, I'm not familiar with the concept or use of CSS or style sheets.

Thanks!

Frank D

I would just use T(weak book) to edit the CSS, changing the selector for a regular paragraphs class="calibre#"
from: font-weight: bold;
to: font-weight: normal;

I would NOT do a wholesale bold to normal, there may be bolds you do want

[frank14612]

Originally Posted by theducks

I would just use T(weak book) to edit the CSS, changing the selector for a regular paragraphs class="calibre#"
from: font-weight: bold;
to: font-weight: normal;

I would NOT do a wholesale bold to normal, there may be bolds you do want

theducks,

I did that. Reconverted the epub. Nothing changed.

Looks like I'll have to edit the RTF.

Thanks anyway.

Frank

PS (a few minutes later): I edited the RTF to remove the bolding. It wasn't that hard. Result: Perfection!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by frank14612

theducks,

I did that. Reconverted the epub. Nothing changed.

Looks like I'll have to edit the RTF.

Thanks anyway.

Frank

Don't convert after editing the CSS, that should have removed the BOLD if you found the correct place(s)

just remove the line: text-decoration: underline; (the default is none)

[frank14612]

theducks,

Thank you for your help!

Frank

[theducks]

CSS is easy
It is the reverse engineering (tracing back to the CSS) of the particular book that can be a pain

glad you had a successful end to the project.