unusaulwu / pdf2epub

Small Python script to convert a PDF to an EPUB file.

📄 pdf2epub 📖

CLI tool for converting a PDF to an EPUB file.

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• Do you want to read a book on your phone but only have the pdf which doesn't scale well?
• Or maybe the book is just available as PDF and not as EPUB?

-> Use this script to convert the PDF to an EPUB which you can then import into your favorite reader.

Usage

Download the pdf2epub.py script and run it:

python pdf2epub.py <path/to/file.pdf> <title> <author> [flags]

The output will be saved as path/to/file.epub.

Example

python pdf2epub.py ./hp5.pdf Harry\ Potter\ 5 JK\ Rowling -f 7 -p 7 -r -\ [0-9]+\ -

Flags

Flag	Shortcut	Default	Function
--cover N	-c	1	The page of the cover image*.
--first N	-f	2	The first page containing the content.
--image_scale N	-s	4	Multiplier for image resolution.
--language LANG	-l	'de'	Configure eBook language setting.
--pagenumberstart N	-p	0	The page where numbering startes (0 if no numbering).
--pagenumberredex REDEX	-r	'[0-9]+'	The REDEX to match the numbering against.
--watermark REDEX	-w	''	The REDEX to match watermarks against ('' if no watermarks).

*If you want to use your own image, set this to 0 and paste the image into './tmp/img-cover.jpeg'.

Requirements

Requirement	Version
Python	3
ebooklib	0.17.1+
pymupdf	1.20.1+