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Removing running headers from a 585-page report

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Long reports repeat the chapter title and page number on every page, and a line-by-line conversion puts them in the middle of sentences. On the 585-page 9/11 Commission Report the EpubCC engine detects them by comparing pages and removes them.

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Original and result

Running headers and page numbers on every page, chapters and endnotes, 585 pages.

Original PDF
Page of the original PDF
Result (EPUB, as a reader shows it)
The same passage in the converted EPUB

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Source and licence

Document
The 9/11 Commission Report (GPO)
Licence
Public domain (work of the U.S. Government)
Pages
585
Traits
text PDF, book, chapters, repeated headers, endnotes, long, load test

The 9/11 Commission Report, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (2004), U.S. Government Publishing Office. A work of the U.S. Government, in the public domain.

Settings used

  • Engine: EpubCC engine, build of 2026-11-03 (the one measured in the benchmark).
  • Pages: the whole document.
  • Options: none. The engine has no per-document settings yet; the same defaults apply to every file.

Validation and results

EPUBCheck EPUBCheck on our EPUB: 0 errors, 0 warnings.

Margin leak · Share of repeated running headers, footers and page numbers left in the text. Methodology
EngineMargin leak
EpubCC engine (EPUB output)0.000
EpubCC engine (plain text)0.995
pdf_oxide · extract_text0.995
pdf_oxide · to_plain_text (XY-cut)0.995
pdf_oxide · Markdown0.005
PDFium · text().all()1.000
OpenDataLoader PDF (local mode)0.000
pdftotext (Poppler)0.000

Limitations we observed

  • There is no independent reference text for this document, so only margin leak, time and memory are measured.
  • The margin-leak metric is only reliable for engines that split lines like pdftotext -layout.

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