I cannot see any need to import such books in Wikisource.

Klaus Graf

2013/6/21 David Cuenca <[email protected]>:
> 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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