There is also a this simple pdf to epub converter
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/44395/Conversion-of-PDF-to-EPUB-Format

If it works well, it also should be possible to do a conversion:
pdf->epub->html->wikitext

Cheers,
Micru

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I'm in Geneva (with fellow wikimedians) at a OA conference and we are
> talking *a lot* about Wikisource.
>
> We have found a very high quality publisher of OA books (
> http://www.openbookpublishers.com/, released in CC-BY), that would be
> utmost happy to have their books in Wikisource.
>
> I think the first issue is technical:
> * do we have a tool that easily takes an EPUB/HTML and convert it in books
> in Wikisource? I'm thinking now about ns0, not nspage.
>
> I think that if we can take a HTML/EPUB index, and transform it in a draft
> Wikisource index of links, and upload all the chapters, formatted, we would
> have done the 90% of an upload of a book.
>
> This would be really important to insert up to date, high quality OA
> content in Wikisource, easily accessible for Wikipedians too.
> And, moreover, Open Access books are more relevant to Wikisource than Open
> Access articles (IMHO).
>
> Aubrey
>
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