Removing background images from pdf to epub

[maurelioc]

Hello folks,
I need to remove a background image when converting from pdf to epub.
This background image is like a old paper with stains and points pretending to simulate an old document.
When converting a similar document without this "noisy" background the epub file is about 500KB from a pdf of 1MB. But with this background the epub file size grows to 30MB.
How may I filter this background? Is there any special option in Calibre to do this task or should I edit the pdf file before conversion? In the later case, which SW may I use to edit the pdf using Ubuntu?

Thanks

[user_none]

You can use Search and Replace. Use the builder button to the right of the search entry. Find the code where the background is defined and match on it. Leave the replace blank so it is removed. You may need to play with it a bit to get it right.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by maurelioc

How may I filter this background? Is there any special option in Calibre to do this task or should I edit the pdf file before conversion? In the later case, which SW may I use to edit the pdf using Ubuntu?

You can always open the converted ePub in Sigil and remove the images.

[penguinaka]

You can highlight copy and paste the entire text to notepad, word pad, ms word or what not and then save as a .txt, .htm, .html, .rt or what not and then convert that to what u will. Or you could get the program adobe acrobat professional and get rid of the image that way and resave the .pdf because the acrobat pro allows you to do edits the reader doesnt.

if the text is also part of an image file withen the .pdf with no selectable text then you need acrobat pro to do text recognition first for you. so that it is selectable then you can do any of the above steps.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by maurelioc

Hello folks,
I need to remove a background image when converting from pdf to epub.
This background image is like a old paper with stains and points pretending to simulate an old document.
When converting a similar document without this "noisy" background the epub file is about 500KB from a pdf of 1MB. But with this background the epub file size grows to 30MB.
How may I filter this background? Is there any special option in Calibre to do this task or should I edit the pdf file before conversion? In the later case, which SW may I use to edit the pdf using Ubuntu?

Thanks

Others are suggesting how to remove.
I will hint on how to add just ONE image and use it on every page (if you must )

Background-image: and background-repeat:
More info at http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/colors.html

Have fun

[penguinaka]

lol the ducks nice tip

[bennewhman]

You can do it with online prog. I remove background from image online with crello. There are a lot of other functions