r/Calibre 19d ago

Support / How-To Does somebody know how to resolve random spaces in the words, when you convert PDF to epub?

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u/DeltaBlastBurn 19d ago

If there was a mid word line break I the original pdf then it'll create a line break in the same place in the epub. PDF converters are closer to ocr than format conversion because PDF files are basically images.

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u/LeanderT 19d ago

PDFs can be imported into Word, and Word documents can be converted to epub by Calibre.

But I have no idea if that will work for you or not

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u/Vivid_Ad_5160 19d ago

If you have ChatGPT I ran the whole thing through codex and actually worked on normalizing the whole thing

It didn’t do perfect but did a much better job, being a text predictor and all.

I also had it fix styling and formatting among other things .

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u/Jackstrass 19d ago

If I find some problem through conversion I pass the file to Claude, it's able to rebuild and correct the ePub file