Upload PDFs to Google Books and preserve page numbers
When uploading to Google Docs, the PDF doesn’t make it through without getting beat up. My page numbers are missing, the table of contents is gone, etc. I heard that if one converts the PDF to ePub, the data is preserved. I know of a program called Calibre that allows one to convert PDF to ePub. This post suggested some commands:
ebook-convert file.pdf file.epub
If the output looks a little wrong – try this
ebook-convert file.pdf file.epub --enable-heuristics
It will try a “smart” way to convert. Not perfect, but can work well in most conversions.
So I tried this, and it honestly didn’t work out so well. Sure, I had an epub formatted book but it didn’t at all match the layout of the original document and appeared all jumbled.