best guide to convert pdf books to epub? in calibre for kobo glo hd

wakkaday · 07-21-2015, 02:31 PM

is there an easy guide i can follow?
i don't mind if its not perfect, but something adequate and readable

thank you

AnemicOak · 07-21-2015, 02:40 PM

There's a long thread around here about PDF, but I can't seem to find it right now.

It's hard because not all PDF's are created the same, but in general I've always gotten the best results by using Acrobat Pro to dump the PDF contents to HTML (assuming it's a text based PDF not image based) or using Mobipocket Creator to dump to HTML. Then create an ePub (and clean up PDF to HTML problems) in Sigil or Calibre editor.

DNSB · 07-22-2015, 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wakkaday

is there an easy guide i can follow?
i don't mind if its not perfect, but something adequate and readable

thank you

I've used Calibre to convert pdf to epub but it's not very pretty. Extraneous line breaks all over the place for starters. I've use Acrobat Pro to convert PDF to HTML which gives me a lot cleaner starting point when importing the HTML into Sigil to generate the final epub. I've also used an online PDF to HTML converter (PDF2HTML??) when I'm at home and do not have access to Acrobat Pro. Either way, the results are better than Calibre's conversion but not perfect. Though I have to say "adequate and readable" is a good description.

Regards,
David

kwokhin · 07-24-2015, 04:41 AM

I would recommend using Koreader to read PDFs in Kobo.
At least you can adjust to width in portrait mode and I find it acceptable to read.

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07-21-2015, 02:40 PM	#2
AnemicOak Bookaholic Posts: 14,391 Karma: 54969924 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota Device: iPad Mini 4, AuraHD, iPhone XR +	There's a long thread around here about PDF, but I can't seem to find it right now. It's hard because not all PDF's are created the same, but in general I've always gotten the best results by using Acrobat Pro to dump the PDF contents to HTML (assuming it's a text based PDF not image based) or using Mobipocket Creator to dump to HTML. Then create an ePub (and clean up PDF to HTML problems) in Sigil or Calibre editor.

07-24-2015, 04:41 AM	#4
kwokhin Enthusiast Posts: 46 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD	I would recommend using Koreader to read PDFs in Kobo. At least you can adjust to width in portrait mode and I find it acceptable to read.

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