06-09-2010, 08:36 AM | #1 |
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Problem converting pdf to epub (size) using calibre
Hi everyone, I had a pdf ebook made only by images. I converted it into a searchable text pdf using an ocr program called pdf converter professional, a very good program. The original pdf was 8mb, the new pdf is about 18mb. When I try to convert it to epub format using Calibre I get an epub output file of 80+ mb and there's no way I could manage to upload such a big file to my iphone unfortunately (I also tried to convert the 8mb pdf to epub but I still get a big 70mb+ epub file as an output). I haven't figured out yet how to make my output file smaller, do I make some mistake in calibre's settings? Please help me I don't get why the epub is so big after conversion, after all this ebook is just 140 pages..
p.s. if this could help I also converted the file with the ocr program in a .doc format, but since calibre doesn't support .doc I don't know how this could be useful Last edited by abadguy; 06-09-2010 at 08:47 AM. |
06-09-2010, 10:25 AM | #2 |
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You might try making a copy of the epub (an epub is just a zip archive), renaming the extension to .zip (from .epub), unzipping the book, and see which files in the epub are large. It could be that there are some large images. If you then open the images in Preview or Photoshop or Gimp, you an probably save those images at a reduced resolution, zip of the files, and make it an epub again.
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06-09-2010, 10:33 AM | #3 |
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Maybe the "searchable text" pdf has both the images and the text, and when you convert it to epub, calibre keeps the images. Try getting a text-only file first with your OCR program, and make it HTML if possible.
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03-22-2012, 08:25 AM | #5 |
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I'm having the reverse problem: getting epubs into PDFs. It actually just fails completely. any thoughts?
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03-22-2012, 05:41 PM | #6 | |
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For the other direction, I'd use jellby's script instead. Here. |
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03-23-2012, 05:33 AM | #7 |
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I'll do that, thanx! =)
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