06-20-2018, 08:06 PM | #1 |
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PDF to epub: Does this work for you?
I have tried numerous times to convert from to PDF to Epub, but I get more or less the same results:
Print one full line of text -> Print one line about 80% of that size -> Print newline. Repeat. The entire books looks like one giant book poetry couplets. I have tired fiddling with the settings (not systematically) but it always looks the same. Any ideas? |
06-20-2018, 11:24 PM | #2 | |
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Basically, PDF is a lousy input format for conversion being oriented to displaying text in a very specific manner, on a specific page size and without text reflow. Last edited by DNSB; 06-20-2018 at 11:30 PM. |
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06-21-2018, 12:44 AM | #3 | |
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Also at the top of this forum is a sticky post titled, "Read this before Posting PDF Questions" Good Luck. |
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06-21-2018, 08:44 AM | #4 |
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You will have much better luck buying ABBY Transformer (can often get from their site for about $35). Does a wonderful job on my OCR scans to convert to pub. Then, you can use Calibre to do a spell check and any formatting issues.
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I was using ABBYY, but I made the switch to Ubuntu and it's not available. |
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06-21-2018, 05:28 PM | #6 |
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Enable heuristics and change the line unwrap factor to .22. The result should be much better.
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06-22-2018, 04:20 AM | #7 |
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unwrap factor is the key.
For a first conversion I always switch off all kind of automated cleanups like heuristic because of too much side effects for analyze possible conversion problems. I only add those if I have a identified specific problem. |
06-24-2018, 05:55 PM | #8 |
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