Calibre and online sites can convert from PDF to Epub usually lose most of the format. I tried PDFElements, with similarly poor results.
Is there any service/app that actually works and converts a PDF to Epub in a way that resembles closely the original?
cc @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Use MS Word to convert PDF to DOCX then use Word to convert to EPUB. This method will still result in lossy conversion. This is inevitable.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year ago
I thought that was the point? PDF usually stores the position of every letter so that pages appear the same when printed, but it is wasteful and does not scale between screen sizes. So EPUB stores just formatted text, which can be rendered at any font size or screen width.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can have fixed content as well, but it needs to be flagged in the document- for example, for illustrated books, or cover, title, and cpr pages.
Op needs to talk with whoever is doing the conversion and tell them what he wants,