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PDF to EPUB

Text that reflows to the screen, so a PDF reads on a phone or an e-reader.

More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert PDF to EPUB

  1. Drop the PDF.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the EPUB.

What happens to your file

The PDF’s text layer is read into paragraphs, headings and lists, and pandoc binds them as an EPUB 3 — chapters from the headings, text that reflows to any screen. Page numbers, columns and the exact layout are left behind, which is the point of an e-book.

A scanned PDF has no text layer and is refused by name — run OCR PDF on it first. A PDF whose text is one column of prose converts best; a magazine layout comes out in reading order, not page order.

Questions

Kindle?

Kindle takes EPUB through Send to Kindle and the Kindle app. MOBI is retired.

Where are the pictures?

Not in this version — the text. Extract images from PDF hands them back.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "convert",
    "options": {
      "to": "epub"
    }
  }'

The same operation, convert — Documents into another document format: Office, text and HTML to PDF by default, or by `to` into docx, odt, rtf, txt, html, xlsx, ods, csv, pptx, odp, md or epub (Markdown and EPUB through pandoc). Images to WebP. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.