About epub-tools

epub-tools is a collection of open source (BSD) tools for generating and managing EPUB documents, including conversions from:

• Word
• RTF
• DocBook
• TEI
• FictionBook

Developers are encouraged to try out the tools and implement them in their own projects.

Last updated: December 14, 2010

What is EPUB?

EPUB is the name for the e-book standard documented by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It is a packaged set of XML documents, metadata and other media that make up a digital book.

Sub-projects

docbook2epub

docbook2epub is a Python/XSLT application to convert a DocBook XML document to ePub.

The current version is 1.0.4

Requirements

1. Python 2.4 or greater
2. The lxml Python library
3. The DocBook XSLT (version including the epub module, >= 1.74.2)
4. setuptools

Download

Packaged zip versions are always available from the downloads page.

You may also check out the latest version from source code via subversion.

EPUBGen

Contributed by Adobe

EPUBGen (rtf2epub, word2epub, fb2epub)

rtf2epub, word2epub and fb2epub are Java applications to convert their respective file types to ePub.

The current version is 0.1.0

Requirements

1. JDK 1.5 or greater
2. (fb2epub additional requirements)
3. Apache Commons FileUpload
4. Apache Commons IO
5. log4j

tei2epub

tei2epub is a Python/XSLT application to convert a TEI XML document to ePub.

The current version is 1.0b2

As of version 1.0b, epubcheck is no longer included.

Requirements

1. Python 2.4 or greater
2. The lxml Python library

Download

Packaged zip versions are always available from the downloads page.

You may also check out the latest version from source code via subversion.

Limitations

• Images, CSS and other media may work, but this has not been tested.
• Very large TEI documents may convert slowly. This issue is known but has not been completely addressed.