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You seem like the kind of people that read. How do you convert to epub? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago by fort_burp@feddit.nl to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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How on planet Earth can I change this pdf to epub? I tried everything I could think of in Calibre but the problem is that the pdf has 2 columns of text per page, plus footnotes on each page. When it converts to epub it just prints each line of each text column as a line of text, which makes it totally lose it's meaning. Footnotes are also just added as regular text, as part of a supremely incoherent story with aggressive punctuation.

Has anybody been able to solve this before?

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[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

pdf is a printing format. epub is a type of html essentially. you essentially want to turn a book into a webpage. it is practically impossible unless you do it manually or the pdf is basically blank and single column without footnotes.

TLDR: pdf and epub are very different formats. you cannot easily convert pdf to epub (but epub to pdf is much easier).

[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 8 points 4 days ago

it is practically impossible unless you do it manually or the pdf is basically blank and single column without footnotes.

Yea, seems like it :/ thanks