# Government report PDF to EPUB: footnotes kept

Source: https://epubcc.com/cases/government-report-footnotes/ (updated 2026-11-04)

Government reports put footnotes at the bottom of almost every page and repeat the report number in every footer. On a 58-page GAO report the EpubCC engine found 50 footnotes, linked 47 to their calls and removed the footers, with no margin text left in the EPUB.

Problem: Footnotes on most pages, a running footer with page number and report number, a letterhead, figures and tables, and appendices with agency comment letters.

- Limitation: 3 of the 50 footnotes were not linked to a call: they stay as notes at the end of the chapter without a link back.
- Limitation: A hyphen that is part of a word is lost when it falls at the end of a line before a capital letter: «E-» + «Verify» became «EVerify» (visible in the sample), «indefinite-» + «delivery» became «indefinitedelivery».
- Limitation: Table cells and figure labels are written as text in reading order, not rebuilt as tables.
- Limitation: The address block of the letterhead becomes ordinary short paragraphs.
- Limitation: GAO publishes no HTML or text version, so there is no independent reference text: the table measures margin leak, not text quality.