Your best PDF to epub or text software methods? (www.prepressure.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Historical_General@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I saw this other guy asking how you'd download protected drive only view documents. So that reminded me of that other annoying characteristic of PDFs. They're 'protected'.

How do you deal with PDFs that are inherently uncustomisable and have fixed formatting? I appreciate the KO Reader and other readers can do reflowable text, but I'd prefer not to and epubs/txt/any customisable format would be better.

Any good methods of PDF to text/epub out there?

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, PDFs frequently make each line, word or sometimes letter its own textbox to ensure consistency when rendering. Did you try the open source ebook manager Calibre for desktop or Librera Reader for Android?

Also, utilities like qpdf can remove a PDF password (provided you know it of course – though you can guess with quick, unlimited retries).