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saoir, on the Mac you might try the free application TextWrangler. It has regular expression support, so you can find and replace tags. It also can find text across line boundaries. And you can specific a range using the text selection for where a "Replace All" operation will take place. It also allows you to write perl or shell scripts and use those scripts to modify the selected text.
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This is a great topic! Lots of great tips.
I tried converting a PDF to epub, but having some issues — the book has lots of tables and equations, and they all just end up like regular text thrown around the page and totally messed up. Does anyone have any tips to handle tables and equations? Can they be automatically converted to images to make sure they look exactly as in the PDF? Thanks! |
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For the best PDF to ePUB result you really must use the OCR method. That is still the best method and after the OCR you have to check the results with the PDF to ensure it is correct.
For example ABBYY has support for tables, but I would not recommend exporting to ePUB directly. It will generate a mess. Equations are troublesome, since MathML is not supported in ePUB2 (it should be in ePUB3, but most readers or applications cannot read ePUB3). I usually recreate the equation at the Codecogs site and create a SVG from it. That one can be easily imported into an ePUB. |
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Assuming you can convert tables or formulas, there remains the issue of size. A table with over 3-4 columns can get folded, spindled and mutilated by anyone with a finger on the increase text size button.
Sometimes it is better to break them apart, make a rotated image or figure out another way to portray the information than trying to put a 16 column table in a 5" screen epub. |
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I was hoping there is some automated way to convert the tables and equations, but I guess I will have to do it all manually. |
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There are NO conversion settings that can get an error free conversion. The only way to do that is to 100% A/B compare the converted ePub with the PDF until you have every single character compared.
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Anybody knows a way with *libre* software?
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I had to register on here just to say a BIG THANK YOU for this post! Since a few days I have my Kindle Paperwhite, but to my big frustration my PDF books looked awful on it. I was searching the net for hours to find a solution. I almost gave up because I read that it's not possible to make a PDF look neat on a Kindle. Then I stumbled upon your post and you saved me!
Big kudos to guys out there doing these sort of things and making our expensive gears be more user friendly! |
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