Tools for checking, correcting and hyphenating EPUB files.
- kindlegen (only unpacked binary is needed): http://www.amazon.com/kindleformat/kindlegen
- epubcheck-4.0.1.zip (Java installed is required for run it): https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck/releases
usage: epubQTools [-h] [-V] [--tools [DIR]] [-l [DIR]] [-i [NR]]
[--author [Surname, First Name]] [--title [Title]]
[--font-dir [DIR]] [--replace-font-family [old,new]] [-a]
[-n] [-q] [-p] [--list-fonts] [-m] [-e] [--skip-hyphenate]
[--skip-hyphenate-headers] [--skip-reset-css]
[--skip-justify] [--left] [--replace-font-files] [--myk-fix]
[--remove-colors] [--remove-fonts] [-k] [-d] [-f]
[--fix-missing-container] [--book-margin [NUMBER]]
directory
positional arguments:
directory Directory with EPUB files stored
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
--tools [DIR] path to additional tools: kindlegen, epubcheck zip
-l [DIR], --log [DIR]
path to directory to write log file. If DIR is omitted
write log to directory with epub files
-i [NR], --individual [NR]
individual file mode
--author [Surname, First Name]
set new author name (only with -i)
--title [Title] set new book title (only with -i
--font-dir [DIR] path to directory with user fonts stored
--replace-font-family [old,new]
pair of "old_font_family,new_font_family"(only with -e
and with --font-dir)
-a, --alter alternative output display
-n, --rename rename .epub files to 'author - title.epub'
-q, --qcheck validate files with qcheck internal tool
-p, --epubcheck validate epub files with EpubCheck 4 tool
--list-fonts list all fonts in EPUB (only with -q)
-m, --mod validate only _moh.epub files (works only with -q or
-p)
-e, --epub fix and hyphenate original epub files to _moh.epub
files
--skip-hyphenate do not hyphenate book (only with -e)
--skip-hyphenate-headers
do not hyphenate headers like h1, h2, h3...(only with
-e)
--skip-reset-css skip linking a reset CSS file to every xthml file
(only with -e)
--skip-justify skip replacing "text-align: left" with "text-align:
justify" in all CSS files (only with -e)
--left replace "text-align: justify" with "text-align: left"
in all CSS files (experimental) (only with -e)
--replace-font-files replace font files (only with -e)
--myk-fix fix for MYK conversion oddity (experimental) (only
with -e)
--remove-colors remove all color definitions from CSS files (only with
-e)
--remove-fonts remove all embedded font files (only with -e)
-k, --kindlegen convert _moh.epub files to .mobi with kindlegen
-d, --huffdic tell kindlegen to use huffdic compression (slow
conversion) (only with -k)
-f, --force overwrite previously generated _moh.epub or .mobi
files (only with -k or -e)
--fix-missing-container
Fix missing META-INF/container.xml file in original
EPUB file (only with -e)
--book-margin [NUMBER]
Add left and right book margin to reset CSS file (only
with -e)
- python -m pip install lxml
- python -m pip install css-parser
- python -m pip install pyinstaller (for compilation only)
- build on Mac (with Python 3.7.x from Homebrew):
pyinstaller -Fn epubQTools ~/github/epubQTools/__main__.py
- build on Windows (with Python 3.7.x):
C:\Python37\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe -Fn epubQTools .\epubQTools\__main__.py