Rather late to the party and I've already forgotten the initial email.
Nevertheless, I'll give the program I most use: epub2txt.[0] It's not perfect,
but compared to calibre's ebook-convert, and everything else I found in C in
github or codeberg or gitlab, it's the best. A once-over with an
On 2024-03-11 17:44 Greg Reagle wrote:
> Now my next question is, what is the tool that does the *best* job of
> turning a PDF book into a readable text document? Via html or
> docbook or markdown or whatever--doesn't matter. My previous
> experience trying things out to achieve this goal is
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 1:15 PM, Greg Minshall wrote:
> for some personal tastes/usage cases, this, using pandoc's `-t`
> option, might be minor-ly simpler:
>
> man --local-file --pager 'less -ir' \
> <(pandoc --standalone -t man \
>
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 4:06 PM, Georg Lehner wrote:
> Option 1: use w3m
[snip]
All great commands. Thank you.
> The reason you loose formatting when saving from less(1) or w3m is, that
> these programs on purpose do not save the terminal control characters
> which are doing the markup. Line
On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 11:33 AM, Hiltjo Posthuma wrote:
> Maybe mupdf/mutools or the eGhostscript tools o qpdf?
Yes, thank you for this excellent advice. I tried "mutool convert", but I am
more satisfied with pandoc's output, for both text and html output (from epub).
Hi Greg,
On 2024-03-09 15:34, Greg Reagle wrote:
I have an epub ebook. It is a novel, but when I get this process working, I
want to repeat it for any epub ebook.
I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with less.
I am happy to use any software that exists in the
Greg,
thanks for this!
for some personal tastes/usage cases, this, using pandoc's `-t`
option, might be minor-ly simpler:
man --local-file --pager 'less -ir' \
<(pandoc --standalone -t man \
2015.31233.Arab-Geographers-Knowledge-Of-Southern-India.epub) |
less
and,
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 09:34:12AM -0500, Greg Reagle wrote:
> I have an epub ebook. It is a novel, but when I get this process working, I
> want to repeat it for any epub ebook.
>
> I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with less.
> I am happy to use any software
I have an epub ebook. It is a novel, but when I get this process working, I
want to repeat it for any epub ebook.
I want to read it, with formatting (such as underline or italics), with less.
I am happy to use any software that exists in the process, but I MUST use less
in the end to read
