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I have a few Pdfs I'd like to convert to epub (or similar) so I can run them through an ebook reader for TTS. I've tried to do it before but I lack the Linux terminal skills. Anybody have any ideas on how to accomplish this?
Converting pdfs to epub - How do I?
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Buy them as epubs. Which books, I'll set up some affiliate links for you.
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You can do it online, for free.
www.zamzar.com
Not sure how good each site is, but there are several.
I've never done it for entire books.
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Not sure how good each site is, but there are several.
I've never done it for entire books.
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They're pretty rare: I've tried to buy them as epubs but they're not to be found.
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Calibre provides epub to pdf and pdf to epub conversion on Linux
Ubuntu / Debian:
Arch Linux:
or
And then simply run the command:
Or you could use the GUI application if you don't feel comfortable with the terminal
Ubuntu / Debian:
sudo apt-get -y install calibreArch Linux:
sudo pacman -S calibreor
sudo pacman -S calibre-python3And then simply run the command:
ebook-convert <pdfName>.pdf <epubName>.epubOr you could use the GUI application if you don't feel comfortable with the terminal
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Thanks, it seems to be fucking up a bit so I'll try different sites I guess.You can do it online, for free.
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Not sure how good each site is, but there are several.
I've never done it for entire books.
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A Critique of Religion and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann is the only one I really care about.
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Pretty fucking rare. I tried hitting up the IRC's, but nothing. Just some dostoevsky and freud analysis written by Kaufmann. First time I've hit a roadblock and I've found some pretty obscure books. You must be reading some seriously esoteric stuff.
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Calibre GUI is what I use. It's a bit clunky for my tastes, but it gets the job done. That's also what I used to combine the last two GoT books into one with the chapters all in the correct order.
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The issue that I'm having is that it doesn't do a very good job of formatting: the table of contents bleeds into the foreword and most sentences are missing the first few words.
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It's entirely possible that the problem is the PDF rather than the converter. There are plenty of ways to construct a PDF that looks fine to a human reader but is so profoundly fucked up under the hood that an automated parser can't handle it unless you explicitly tell it how.
A quick shit test you can do is to select all the text in the PDF, copy it, and paste it into a plain text file. If it looks normal then congrats, you now have a file you can easily convert to whatever format you need. If it looks like it has the same issues as when you converted it then you've got a sped PDF.
If you want some help un-tarding your PDF I can take a look at it.
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Might wanna try OCR'ing the pdf, edit the text, and then converting that to epub. gImageReader is probably the best OCR.
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I'll give that a shot and let you know, thanks.
If all else fails I'll give that a try.