Re: Something I Never Fucking Knew

Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote at 21:07 this Friday (GMT):

I have fucking THOUSANDS, nay TENS of THOUSANDS, of fucking
e-books.
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Most are PDF.  Some are DJVU.  Some are EPUB.
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I was perusing an EBUB and I wondered how I could extract the
images from this e-book format.  A quick search brought me this:
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"Any non-DRM'ed epub ebook is just a renamed zipped folder. All
you'll need to do is rename the file from <filename>.epub to
<filename>.zip and unzip the folder. At that point, you should
be able to navigate within the folders to find the images and
do whatever you like with them."
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https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/1286/how-can-i-extract-all-the-pictures-from-an-ebook
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Well how about that?  Another zipped directory disguised as
a bona fide format.

Well, it's a common technique. I've seen plenty of "fake file
extensions" that just use an existing format. Of course, you can easily
tell by looking at the magic number on the file.

Of course, GNU/Linux has the tools to extract images from ANY
file format.

Oh cool, what tool?

Can Microshit Winblows claim the same?
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Just open your wallet and head for the Winblows "Store."
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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