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My converted EPUB has broken paragraphs and stray line breaks every few words

Your EPUB opens, but every sentence breaks into three short lines, and a hyphenated word such as “sentences” shows up as two fragments — “sen-” on one line, “tences” on the next. Below is a real conversion of the same demonstration passage, not a mockup: first as a converter without layout analysis renders it, then as ours does.

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Demonstration passage rendered by a converter without layout analysis: every PDF line break kept as a line break, splitting hyphenated words such as 'sen-' and 'tences' across two lines. 1
A converter without layout analysis
Our EPUB: the same passage as two whole paragraphs, hyphenated words rejoined, with the original paragraph break kept as a blank line. 2 3
Our EPUB
  1. Line ends mid-word, before the hyphenated word is whole
  2. Hyphenated word repaired — whole, not split across lines
  3. Lines rejoined into one paragraph; the real paragraph break kept
Same demonstration passage, captured 13 October 2026. This is not a published book.

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Why this happens

A PDF stores individual lines positioned on a page, not paragraphs — a line ending is just where the typesetter happened to break it, sometimes mid-word with a hyphen. A converter that copies those lines verbatim keeps every one of those breaks, so when the reading app reflows the text to your screen, a new line starts every few words and hyphenated words stay cut in two. Ours rejoins paragraphs by reading where the PDF's own line breaks fall against the page margin, repairs hyphenation at those line endings, and keeps a true paragraph break — the extra space the author left between paragraphs — as its own block.

What to check in the preview

  • Read a paragraph straight through — it should flow as one block, with no new line starting mid-sentence.
  • Look for a hyphenated word that fell at a PDF line ending — it should read as one whole word, not two fragments.
  • Check that an intentional paragraph break still shows as a break, not run into the paragraph before it.

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  2. Check the preview: paragraphs should read as whole blocks, with hyphenated words rejoined.
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Frequently asked questions

Why does my EPUB have a line break every few words after converting a PDF?

PDFs store individual lines positioned on a page, not paragraphs. A converter that copies those lines verbatim keeps every hard break, so the EPUB starts a new line at the same spot every time it reflows. Paragraph-aware conversion reads where those line breaks fall against the margin and rejoins them into continuous paragraphs.

Why are hyphenated words split in half in my EPUB?

A PDF sometimes breaks a word across a line ending with a hyphen, purely because of where that line happened to end on the page. A converter that copies lines verbatim keeps the hyphen and the split. Conversion that repairs hyphenation rejoins the word and drops the hyphen.

Will converting again lose my paragraph breaks?

No — a real paragraph break, the extra space the author left between paragraphs, is kept as its own block. Only the hard line breaks inside a paragraph are rejoined; a genuine new paragraph still starts a new one.