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Liber

Convert PDF, manga and comics into EPUB.

You review chapters, cover and page order before generating the file. Nothing leaves your computer.

Windows · macOS · Linux · AGPL-3.0 license

liber
Liber home screen: title, PDF Book and Manga / Comics buttons and a bookshelf
[ 01 — THE NAME ]

“Book” in Latin, and also “free”.

Liber turns PDFs into reflowable-text EPUBs and manga or comic pages into fixed-layout EPUBs, with a review step in between. No file is sent to the internet.

[ 02 — TWO PATHS ]

Book or comic, each in its own way.

pdf-book
PDF book: book details, structure with the editor open and EPUB preview

PDF book → reflowable EPUB

  • Detects chapters, headings, images, notes, likely covers and front pages.
  • Removes repeated headers, footers and page numbers.
  • OCR in Portuguese and English on scanned pages, with Tesseract installed.
  • Table-of-contents-style structure: fix the text, change the block type and reorder.
  • Compares the EPUB preview with the original PDF page.
manga-comics
Manga and comics: page thumbnails with chapters and a page preview

Manga / comics → fixed-layout EPUB

  • Imports images, a whole folder (2 before 10), a comic PDF or the images from a public URL.
  • Reorder by dragging the thumbnails.
  • Mark the cover (★) and the start of each chapter.
  • Reads right-to-left or left-to-right.
  • Respects EXIF rotation and mirroring of photos.
[ 03 — HOW TO USE ]

Import, review, generate.

  1. ImportPick PDF Book or Manga / Comics, or drag files anywhere onto the window.
  2. ReviewCheck the structure, the cover and the page order before generating.
  3. Generate the EPUBOne click, and your e-reader controls font and text size.
[ 04 — PRIVACY ]

Your files never leave your computer.

PDFs and images are processed locally. The only network access is URL import, when you ask it to download the images of a page. Original files are never modified.

[ 05 — DOWNLOAD ]

One ZIP per system.

SystemFileOpen
Windows 64-bitConversorEPUB-windows-x64.zipConversorEPUB.exe
macOS, Apple chipConversorEPUB-macos-arm64.zipConversorEPUB.app
macOS IntelConversorEPUB-macos-x64.zipConversorEPUB.app
Linux 64-bitConversorEPUB-linux-x64.zipConversorEPUB

No need to install Python. The apps aren't digitally signed yet, so macOS and Windows may show a warning on first launch. The repository explains how to proceed.

[ 06 — INTERFACE ]

Shelf, drag and drop, narrow windows.

intro
Liber intro: books fall and form a curved shelf below the title
narrow window
Liber layout in a narrow window

The home screen shows the latest generated EPUBs on a shelf. The interface is available in Portuguese and English.

Open source, AGPL-3.0 license.