Accessible PDF to ePub

[newbiecalibre]

Hello,

I haven't seen this in the archives of this forum, so I hope someone can help.

I have made a Word document accessible for people with disabilities. This includes using headings, amongst other things. I then make a PDF from that document and add tags to it.

The tags help tell a screen reader where things like paragraphs and headings are in that document. That PDF forms a great roadmap for someone who is blind, who is using a screen reader to 'read' the document.

Calibre looks like an amazing tool, and easy to use!

I can see that I can convert a PDF to an ePub easily, but here is my question...Do the PDF tags get stripped out? Or are they kept in?

Thanks in advance.

LS

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by newbiecalibre

Hello,

I haven't seen this in the archives of this forum, so I hope someone can help.

I have made a Word document accessible for people with disabilities. This includes using headings, amongst other things. I then make a PDF from that document and add tags to it.

The tags help tell a screen reader where things like paragraphs and headings are in that document. That PDF forms a great roadmap for someone who is blind, who is using a screen reader to 'read' the document.

Calibre looks like an amazing tool, and easy to use!

I can see that I can convert a PDF to an ePub easily, but here is my question...Do the PDF tags get stripped out? Or are they kept in?

Thanks in advance.

LS

@newbiecalibre - I think you'll do a whole sight better starting with your Word file, save it as DOCX and convert it to EPUB with calibre. One caveat you must use Words Styling facilities, no manual spacing with successive Tabs and empty Paragraphs. See ==>> Ebook Conversion

Converting PDF to anything is problematic see == >> Read this before Posting PDF Questions

BR

[PeterT]

No idea but..... the advice would be to convert from the DOC file to ePub, either by using toxaris's word add on or by saving as a DOCX format and using calibre's native conversion.

PDF is not a good format to convert from.

See https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=213372 for the Word tool.

[crich70]

Calibre doesn't really do the best job in converting from PDF. Of course that's not Calibre's fault as PDF isn't easy to convert to epub in general. There is pdf to Epub which you can get here:Click They have it where you can get a copy free at times as a promotional of their software.

[newbiecalibre]

Hi Everyone,

That would work, and save me a step too! I would assume that Calibre would keep the headings, etc. intact from the Word doc. Now more to read up about!

Thanks so much!

LS

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by newbiecalibre

Hi Everyone,

That would work, and save me a step too! I would assume that Calibre would keep the headings, etc. intact from the Word doc. Now more to read up about!

Thanks so much!

LS

There's a sample DOCX in first link i posted - download it and have a look at it.

IMO, with any conversion its always better to start with the original text/image/recording etc rather using a an intermediary conversion. eg RAW->JPEG rather than RAW->TIFF->JPG - of course there are always exceptions, and people wanting to argue.

BR