Mobi to Docx Conversion Erorr

[thebigbopper]

Hi,

I've been trying to convert a .mobi file to docx with no success. I had a sample from Amazon the converted perfectly, but when I bought the whole file, the conversion failed, with no output file. Here is the log file (this is with heuristc processing on, but the same error occurs without it on):

Spoiler:

calibre, version 2.67.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (Collins Unabridged Italian to English (One Way) Dictionary (Collins Complete and Unabridged) (Italian Edition))

Convert book 1 of 1 (Collins Unabridged Italian to English (One Way) Dictionary (Collins Complete and Unabridged) (Italian Edition))
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.67.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\Sami\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_t tmq1d\\vasewb.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'docx_custom_page_size': None,
'docx_no_cover': True,
'docx_no_toc': True,
'docx_page_size': u'letter',
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': None,
'enable_heuristics': True,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleInput object at 0x03523D30>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 72.0,
'margin_left': 72.0,
'margin_right': 72.0,
'margin_top': 72.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KoboReaderOutput object at 0x0352E0B0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\Sami\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_t tmq1d\\boo0jx.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running
on C:\Users\Sami\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_ttmq1d\tx dthn.mobi
Extracting text...
Adding anchors...
Extracting images...
Cleaning up HTML...
Parsing HTML...
Malformed markup, parsing using BeautifulSoup
Python function terminated unexpectedly
(Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 190, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1060, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_in put.py", line 33, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\reader\mobi6.py", line 69, in __init__
MemoryError

Any help would be enormously appreciated!

Thanks,
Sami

[HarryT]

Calibre can't convert dictionaries. They aren't in the same format as normal books.

[thebigbopper]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Calibre can't convert dictionaries. They aren't in the same format as normal books.

Thanks, that makes sense.

I'm still wondering though, as I'm not looking to use this as a dictionary - the file has example sentences/phrases that I'm looking to extract and use in the Anki flashcard app.

Is there any way to extract the data at all, so that I can at least copy and paste it into Excel for editing?

I've used Kindleunpack to get it to an html, but I'm stuck at this stage because Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Excel/Wordpad crashes whenever it tries to open the 52mb .html file. I've then tried splitting it into smaller html files with Wordpad++ but then the formatting doesn't hold. Is it possible to copy and paste from the mobi file?