Convert pdf file to epub

Question

Is to possible to convert pdf file to epub format without errors? Is there some application in Linux that can do it? I found only Ecub and Calibre which give bad results or fail.

A command-line application is sufficient.

It's an ordinary pdf (not scanned), so OCR is not needed.

Solution

Calibre would be my best suggestion, though it's far from perfect.

The linux version comes with both a GUI interface, and various command line tools. See ebook-convert:

ebook-convert file.pdf file.epub

Comments

[Admin]

If calibre fails you could use the fact that ePub is just a couple of xhtml files inside a zip. So you could play with pdftohtml or pdftotext and then pack the result into a ePub file.

[xralf]

I'm sorry, Calibre is another one I tried but I forgot it's name. Now I confirmed that this failed. I tried to open the result with my Aldiko reader.

[Evan]

I would file a bug report in its issue tracker: they put out a new version every week, and are quick to respond in general, I've found.

[xralf]

But I don't know what error happened, can I test the file.epub and see where is the problem?

[Evan]

Calibre has a forum at MobileRead.com -- you might ask there.