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Any idea on how to best compile it to an ebook? Just stuffing the jpgs into a pdf rarely works well...

c0balt 1y ago
I haven't that done this in some time, but templating some markdown code for pandoc and creating an ebup might be a viable avenue.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y ago
  Oooh... I have even less luck with epub, when the pages are an image-per-page.
- kragen 1y ago
  Maybe what rarely works well for NoMoreNicksLeft is having a gigabyte of JPEGs in a single HTML chapter inside the epub? In that case you could do something like divide the files into 373 "chapters" of 6 pages each? One of the fragmentary editions I linked on the Archive uses the .cbr Comic Book Reader format; perhaps that is a better format than .epub for high-resolution scans of every page?
eMPee584 1y ago
ocrmypdf (rocks!)
foofoo12 1y ago
I usually do what rarely doesn't work well for you, but it works decently for me. You get 1 page per image and the image isn't compressed or touched at all. apt install img2pdf img2pdf *.jpg -o leonardo-da-book.pdf
- nunodonato 1y ago
  wouldnt this mess up the order? I think you are supposed to view it like R1, V2, R2, V2, etc
  - foofoo12 1y ago
    Yes, this was just an example. Using wildcard expansion will give you whatever order the your current shell seems fit. Bash does alphabetical order.
    - kragen 1y ago
      More like echo $(for page in {1..1119}; do for side in R V; do echo "000$side-$page.jpg"; done; done)
atoav 1y ago
Calibre comes with a ebook-convert command, that one might work
ticulatedspline 1y ago
Easy way would be to just drop them in a zip and label it .cbz. Most readers handle CBR/CBZ just fine.
- kragen 1y ago
  Oh, is .cbz that simple? Does it use the file order of the zipfile members or some other order? (https://acbf.fandom.com/wiki/ACBF_Editor_-_Creating_Metadata https://acbf.fandom.com/wiki/ACBF_Editor_-_Creating_Metadata says it uses alphabetical order, which is the wrong order in this case.) It may be useful to use zip -Z store. JPEG data isn't going to get much benefit from another layer of LZ77.

I haven't that done this in some time, but templating some markdown code for pandoc and creating an ebup might be a viable avenue.

NoMoreNicksLeft 1y ago
Oooh... I have even less luck with epub, when the pages are an image-per-page.
kragen 1y ago
Maybe what rarely works well for NoMoreNicksLeft is having a gigabyte of JPEGs in a single HTML chapter inside the epub? In that case you could do something like divide the files into 373 "chapters" of 6 pages each? One of the fragmentary editions I linked on the Archive uses the .cbr Comic Book Reader format; perhaps that is a better format than .epub for high-resolution scans of every page?

eMPee584 1y ago

ocrmypdf (rocks!)

foofoo12 1y ago

I usually do what rarely doesn't work well for you, but it works decently for me. You get 1 page per image and the image isn't compressed or touched at all. apt install img2pdf img2pdf *.jpg -o leonardo-da-book.pdf

nunodonato 1y ago
wouldnt this mess up the order? I think you are supposed to view it like R1, V2, R2, V2, etc
- foofoo12 1y ago
  Yes, this was just an example. Using wildcard expansion will give you whatever order the your current shell seems fit. Bash does alphabetical order.
  - kragen 1y ago
    More like echo $(for page in {1..1119}; do for side in R V; do echo "000$side-$page.jpg"; done; done)

atoav 1y ago

Calibre comes with a ebook-convert command, that one might work

ticulatedspline 1y ago

Easy way would be to just drop them in a zip and label it .cbz. Most readers handle CBR/CBZ just fine.

kragen 1y ago
Oh, is .cbz that simple? Does it use the file order of the zipfile members or some other order? (https://acbf.fandom.com/wiki/ACBF_Editor_-_Creating_Metadata https://acbf.fandom.com/wiki/ACBF_Editor_-_Creating_Metadata says it uses alphabetical order, which is the wrong order in this case.) It may be useful to use zip -Z store. JPEG data isn't going to get much benefit from another layer of LZ77.