Good way to convert manuals/docs into org mode files

[idlip]

Hi everyone!

I'm a org-mode user, and after reading docs/manuals in epub and info, I think org-mode would be a good candidate to store them for me.

So, I'd like to know what would be the better way to convert html/epub files to cleaner org mode files.
By clean I mean, I dont need those <<XYZ>> radio or internal targets which serves no purpose of jumping link.

Note: Default converter serves good purpose, I'm looking for some tips and other suggestions on this.

I'd also like to know how others prefer to read docs/manuals or even a novel.

[jgm]

You should be able to use a filter to strip off the identifiers from the Header elements in the AST; then you won't get the targets.

Save this as stripids.lua and use --lua-filter stripids.lua on the command line.

function Header(el)
  el.identifier = ""
  return el
end

[idlip]

Thank you for the quick response!

This removes the property drawer custom_id links (which is good enough)

I will look into targets then, got a hang of filters documentation.

Edit: Div identifier got rid of <> targets!