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pdf2lrf
Part of libprs500 v0.3.81. It extracts the text from PDF files and converts them to LRF. Preserves bold and italics. See attached demo.
It doesn't support embedded images and results are not going to be satisfactory for complex PDF files. But for converting simple novels, it works great. Linux users: If you want support for PDF links then you need to install poppler from CVS. To use: Code:
pdf2lrf "mybook.pdf" Last edited by kovidgoyal; 07-30-2007 at 05:02 PM. |
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Would it be possible to have PDF2HTML so we can then edit the text/book how we want and then use html2lrf to create a properly formatted book?
And this is a great step forward for PDF conversion without the need for Acrobat. |
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pdftohtml is on your path in windows.
Code:
pdftohtml mybook.pdf |
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Incidentally, is there some reason this thread isn't being made a sticky?
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Are there any instruction how to use this feature? Sort of help or FAQ?
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Start up a terminal (Start->Run and type cmd.exe)
change to the directory of your pdf file Code:
cd "c:\my directory" pdf2lrf mybook.pdf |
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thanks.
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foreign characters
Could you explain how to get correct non-english characters from pdf? I get strange results with polish language.
a word "CZĘŚĆ" is converted into: <b>CZ </b><br> <b>E ´S ´</b><br> <b>C I</b><br> |
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Try the -enc switch of pdftohtml?
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Thanks, I tried it, but I can only get the error message:
Error: Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the 'iso-8859-2' encoding Is there a list of encoding names? |
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I dont know, you'll have to contact the author of pdftohtml.
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Thanks for your input, I discovered that my pdf has embedded font without unicode map, which may be the reason of all problems and there is no easy way of fixing it :-(
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This is a MESS.
Line breaks ignored. Page breaks after 1-2 lines on a page, IN THE MIDDLE of the sentence. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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