Bug 17045

Summary:	Add PdfMasher PDF to EPUB converter
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Asel Luzarraga <aselluzarraga>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.hardcoded.net/pdfmasher/
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Description Asel Luzarraga 2015-10-29 21:23:50 CET

PdfMasher is a tool to convert PDF articles (newspaper, academic) to MOBI or EPUB documents. Most ebook readers support PDF files natively, but it's often a real pain to read those documents because we don't have font size control over the document like we have with native ebooks. In many cases, we have to use the zooming feature and it's just a pain. Another drawback of PDFs on ebook readers is that annotations are not supported.

There are already tools to convert PDFs to ebooks like Calibre, but what they do is that they try to guess the role of each piece of text in the PDF (and that's if you're lucky). I think that in all but the simplest cases, it's a mistake to think that anything short of an AI can do that kind of guessing.

http://www.hardcoded.net/pdfmasher/

Asel Luzarraga 2015-10-29 21:24:37 CET

Summary: Add PdfMaster PDF to EPUB converter => Add PdfMasher PDF to EPUB converter

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2016-02-23 15:05:12 CET

Assigning to packagers collectively as it is the rule for package requests.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Target Milestone: Mageia 6 => ---
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 2 sturmvogel 2022-05-13 18:01:46 CEST

Last release is from 2013. In 2015 the developer abandoned this project officially. Code is archived and unmaintained. 

Thus closing as WONTFIX.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX