Need help on converting Epub to HTML

[alpha_owa]

Is there a way to convert EPUB to HTML without having some of the classes? Or CSS on it? Or only have it with plain HTML tags?

Or is there any other tool you recommend?

Thanks in advance.

[skb]

I don't know if there's a "quick" way, but I would open in Sigil and create new HTML files from the entrails (using cut & paste). I'd then search & replace styles etc.

As I said, it's not a quick way.

[theducks]

If the book uses a CSS, simply un-link the files. Even though the code contains class=, there is no styling

if inline styles: REGEX should help removing style="(.+?)"

[PeterT]

I've not tried this myself but a conversion to markdown format should produce a document with very basic formatting, which on turn should concert to a very simplified html document.

You might also see what a tool called PanDoc might do. https://pandoc.org/

[roger64]

Originally Posted by alpha_owa

Is there a way to convert EPUB to HTML without having some of the classes? Or CSS on it? Or only have it with plain HTML tags?

Or is there any other tool you recommend?

Thanks in advance.

I would convert to htmlz format. It does simplify a lot...

[retiredbiker]

You could simply open it in the Editor, delete any files you don't want in the result, then:

->Arrange the header of the top file as you desire, including removing CSS links if you like.
->Select all the text files you want, right-click, and merge them.
->Use some regex to get rid of all the IDs, attributes, spans, divs, and what-have-you.

->Another regex search to turn all the various <p class="whatever"> to simply <p>...or maybe two or three searches if you want several in your result. Same with <hn...> lines.

(If you have a book based all on <div>s instead of <p>s, adjust accordingly.)

That should leave you with one file, as simplified as you desire. Just export it.

Given all the stuff in books, I doubt you'd ever automate this, but go through one and save your searches, and the next ones should literally take only minutes.

I basically do this when faced with some ancient, amateur scanned book that looks like a ransom note. Then I re-format and split the single file into chapters of whatever. But the basic clean-up only takes a couple of minutes with saved searches.