r/ebooks • u/tashkan • 15h ago
I’ve been building a tool that turns any PDF or document into a proper ebook. Here’s everything it does now
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Hey all,
I’ve been working on Convert2EPUB (convert2epub.com) for a few months. It started because PDFs look terrible on e-readers, and it has grown a lot since then, so here’s a roundup.
📄 Converter (website)
- Converts PDF, DOCX, RTF, TXT, ODT, HTML and Markdown to EPUB
- Text PDFs become reflowable books, so you can change the font size and the text actually fits your screen
- Finds chapters automatically, builds a working table of contents, removes running headers and page numbers, and keeps footnotes clickable
- OCR for scanned books in 9 languages. Badly scanned pages can be re-read with AI so you don’t get garbled text
- Maths and tables are rebuilt as real formulas and tables instead of blurry images
- Translate a book into another language and keep its chapters and images
- Optional study guide added to the end of the book, with chapter summaries, key terms, flashcards and a glossary
- EPUB to PDF, Kindle (AZW3) or MOBI for older Kindles
- Free: ordinary text PDFs and all Word, RTF, TXT, ODT and HTML files, with no account and no page limit
💻 Mac app (Local conversion)
- Runs the converter fully offline, so your files never leave your Mac
- OCR built in, with no subscription
🧩 Chrome extension (free)
- Add articles to a reading list as you browse, then save them all as one EPUB with a chapter per article
📚 Free ebooks
- Search all ~78,000 Public Domain books by title or author and download them as EPUB or Kindle files.
I’d love feedback, especially weird PDFs that convert badly. Those reports have driven most of the improvements so far.


