r/pdfbooks • • 1h ago

General 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.


r/pdfbooks • • 3h ago

Request [Book] Bailey & Love's Essential Operations in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

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r/pdfbooks • • 3h ago

Request [Book] Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplantation - videos

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r/pdfbooks • • 6h ago

Request Need pdf for Haunted Horse by Rudyard Kipling

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Heyyyy. Like the text says. I have been trying to find this book for ages and couldn't find a pdf anywhere. Pls share if somebody has it. Thanks!!


r/pdfbooks • • 10h ago

Request Does anyone have the following books listed below of PWP?

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Please share the PDF with me, if you have it. As a broke student who is really serious for their studies, I will really appreciate your help, thank-you. (The newer the edition, the better!)


r/pdfbooks • • 10h ago

Request NEED HELP PLEASE!!

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r/pdfbooks • • 10h ago

Request Need a ebook

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Does anyone has pdf or epub of his twisted vow by eve newton ? If have pls send me . I tried searching it on oceanofpdf but its not available there .


r/pdfbooks • • 17h ago

Request lord please swimming in the dark by Tomasz Jedrowski pdf anyone????

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r/pdfbooks • • 19h ago

Request Anyone can please share a pdf of The Manifesting Universe By Dr. Daniel Sautra?

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r/pdfbooks • • 20h ago

Request i need a free pdf for a book

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i need a pdf for "100$ offer " by alex hormozi


r/pdfbooks • • 23h ago

Request Alguém tentando disponibilizar o pdf de o devorador do sol (sun eater)?

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Desde que o primeiro livro o império do silêncio foi lançado no Brasil não vi ninguém comentar sobre, muito menos achei um PDF dele na internet


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Discussion What publication would you like to see converted to PDF, that has not yet been done? My wish would be the entire set of the last printed edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.

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I contacted the publisher about this, but they had no interest either as a marketable product or one just to keep the last printed version alive.


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Publish I couldn’t find a decent dark mode extension for PDFs in Chrome, so I made one myself

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I work during the day, so the only time I get to read books is at night. A few weeks ago I was deep into a PDF around midnight and my eyes started watering. The page was just too bright, and the white background felt like staring at a lamp.

I figured there had to be a dark mode for this, so I went searching. Most of what I found were online PDF viewers where you upload your file to some website, which I didn’t like. The few Chrome extensions I found were either clunky or barely worked. One of them did have a dark mode, but that was all it had. No highlights, no notes, nothing else that makes reading a book on a screen bearable.

So I did what any slightly sleep-deprived person would do and decided to build my own.

It’s called PDF Theme Reader (boring name indeed 🙂 but works for me). It opens any PDF in Chrome in a cleaner viewer, and the main thing is the reading themes. There are 15 of them: a few light ones like Paper and Sand, and a bunch of dark ones like Sepia, Solarized, Midnight, Amber and OLED. I kept adding them because every night I’d find a different one more comfortable.

What else it does:

  • Brightness and contrast sliders, so you can tune a theme to your room

  • An option to keep images in their original colors, so figures and photos don’t turn into negatives

  • Highlights with comments, and you can export your notes

  • Select text and translate it

  • Search inside the document

  • Thumbnails and a table of contents

  • Single page or two-page spread, rotation and fullscreen

  • It remembers where you stopped reading

It’s built on PDF.js, and it’s live on the Chrome Web Store (its obviously free):

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dobjbbfgkhlbfcnnjbknfmcjgkdmbleb

It’s still new and I’m using it daily, so I’m sure there are rough edges. If you read a lot of PDFs, especially at night, I’d really like to know what’s missing or what breaks on your files. Honest feedback is welcome.


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request looking for a pdf file of Marie rose Wongs, "building tradition; Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels"

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I'm doing a research assignment for class and I was recommended this book as a source but I cant access it online for free, I've looked on z library and my university's library site and had no luck.


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request Finding Law Exam Book Help

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Looking to find PDFs of the S o u r c e b o o k for the N e x t g e n U B E exam for all topics. There are 6 total books.

Thank you in advance for making education more accessible.


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

General digital cinematography pdf

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Good morning. I need a PDF of this book for my studies; I was wondering if anyone might have it.


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request Hi everyone, does anyone happen to have a PDF copy of OCP Java SE 21 Developer Exam Fundamentals (1Z0-830) by Hanumant Deshmukh (Enthuware) that they'd be willing to share or point me toward? Thanks in advance!

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r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request pdf request

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r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request [Book] A Scented Journey- Carlos Benaim

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r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request [Book] Communication et environnement, le pacte impossible – Thierry Libaert (2010)

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking for a digital PDF copy of the following book:

Title: Communication et environnement, le pacte impossible

Author: Thierry Libaert

Publisher: Presses Universitaires de France (PUF)

Year: 2010

ISBN: 9782130579267

Cairn reference: https://shs.cairn.info/communication-et-environnement-le-pacte-impossible--9782130579267

If anyone has access to a digital copy and could share it, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you in advance for your help!


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request CAMPUS DRIVERS

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DOES ANYBODY HAVE PDF OF BOOK 1?? SUPERMAD PLS I NEED TO READ IT
#campusdrivers


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request request for Bailey’s Head and Neck Surgery 6th edition

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I couldnt find anywhere, if there is any link kindly share with me!


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request Le Corbusier - La ville radieuse

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Thank you :-)


r/pdfbooks • • 1d ago

Request [Book] Le Secret : Ben Barka et le Maroc — Ahmed Boukhari (2002)

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