Hey people,

My girlfriend started reading on her Kindle and kept converting PDFs and getting books she couldn't read properly. I am a software developer, so she always told me to make her a better conversion tool. For the past month, I dug into why other tools failed, researched how EPUB works, and how I can make it work.

So I built convert2epub.com. It’s free, and no account is needed for normal text conversions, only for the work done converting scanned pdf's. I posted the first version on r/kindle and got 500 upvotes, improved the first version based on the feedback, and now people are saying it's the best tool they have ever used.

Scans that were already read

Publishers often leave recognised text sitting invisibly on top of the page image. Most converters ignore it and hand back a book of photographs. This one finds that layer and uses it.

I tested this with a 300-page novel. The PDF had 426,904 characters of clean text inside it. Other converters ignored those characters and converted it to an EPUB that contained 637. It was a 20MB book of pictures.

That same book now comes out at 1.4MB with real, resizable text.

Formula/Code recognition

Mathematics is set in two dimensions and extraction reads in one, so a fraction arrives as a column of fragments. Equations are kept as drawn while the prose around them still reflows.

Your typography back

The first page becomes the cover, and the title and author are read from the file rather than left as a filename.

Removing watermarks and repeated title/footer.

Every page of a book repeats its title, author and page number in the margin. On paper, you never notice. Extract the text, and those become ordinary lines, so your reader flows them straight into the prose. Same for watermarks and adverts stamped onto free PDFs. In that same book, it was 778 stray lines across four repeating patterns. I added a feature to remove them.

When there is no text to recover, OCR reads the pages instead, in eight languages and only the pages that actually need it.

Hi I love Anna’s archive but sometimes they don’t have the exact edition I’m looking for. Is there anywhere else I can look for books because Anna, LibGen and Internet archive?

Thanks!

Now in Brazil it is not available!
502 Bad Gateway - info

I am very new to Annas Archive and just downloaded the first book out of interest. My question is basically how many precautions do you take when downloading? Is downloading punishable by law (in Europe)? Do you use VPNs and special browsers? Or can I simply use it in Chrome and no Police will come knocking at my door?😅

For those who have done at-home scanning, can you please share what you did?

• What phone or scanning hardware did you use
• What apps did you use
• Any other hardware accessories that you used
• How well did it work
• How fast was it
• Did it require removing the spine of books (or other media), or did the it remain intact
• What issues or downsides did you encounter
• What output file formats did it give you
• Did the app do OCR, and how well did that work, and for which languages
• How much did it cost
• What are your recommendations to others who want to scan books at home

Hello and my first question for annas. I've registered and logged in with the keyword which was accepted. My search was found but the download icon is greyed out. But this is real progress in finding the materials I've sought out for a long time. What do I need to know yet?

hey guys i bought a textbook and i am trying to extract it into html files to upload it to Z-library so that all other people can have access to it.
when i try to save it as an Html it saves all the other elements in the page including the margins(which i want to crop).
i am not a programmer and if someone know how to do that i will be grateful thank you in advance

Why?

Is anyone else getting stuck on the page that says “Checking your browser before accessing”. It says it will take a few seconds but it often lasts over 5 minutes and I still don’t get in. This is after each search and clicking on a book, before I can even get to the download section.

I had previously donated, will that fix it?

Apologies for the issues. We suspect a coordinated attack. We've mitigated the attack vectors and will offer an extra month of membership for donations (of 3+ months) being made during the rest of this month. Note that all memberships contain 1-2 extra days per month already to account for downtime.

Thanks for all your patience and support. If you encounter further issues, please email us with as much details as possible.

Is still worth it to get a AA membership given the constant attacks? Even with VPN, I am not gettting in. Thoughts?

All the official domains are down

I keep getting stuck with the download link/tab "loading" when I go to actually download the book. I also notice none of the epubs have covers.

Update: I am now able to download books. The website still seems a bit laggy. No VPN and in the United States. No covers show on website, but show in files once downloaded.

hello everyone! is the site working for y'all? maybe its updating or something... just wanna makes sure. it doesn't open, only ''500 Internal Server Error nginx/1.31.3 '' appears.

EDIT: could almost make it to a book I'm searching for to download. just by refreshing multiple times in each page that fails. but I'm stuck after clicking on the said book when able to make it to a functioning results page. might give up and wait. its take v v long.

Not sure if it’s a coincidence but since the recent problems, none of the epub downloads I’ve sent to my Kindle, have page count features. Only location in book. Never an issue previously though. Anyone else notice this please?

At least when I'm at home (rn) I can open .gl and .pk freely. Glad AA is alive.

(In Belarus if you wonder)

Dk about other countries rn. Check it by yourself. Wish it works.

Is the site down? I'm trying to download some books, but I keep getting 505 bad gateway error

So I saw on the headline when the site went up again, and it said that someone is trying to take down Anna's Archive, so basically I am wondering, what happened when the site was down? Are the people in charge alright? Genuine question cause a raid to the server also happened to one of the book archival site I know.