Get page number for a piece of text

[kronos]

Like previous posts, I am interested only in extracting the text.
I've achieved that by using the Spine. But, most books have less
Resources than pages, and there is no clear way to map the resource's
text to a page number.

Is there a way to get this piece of information without rendering the
eBook ?

Thanks.

[kronos]

[Heinrik Honculada]

To be honest I don't have this feature using the library.

[Paul Siegmann]

Hi Jeremy,

Unfortunately it is very complicated to tell which page a piece of
text comes from in an epub.
The problem is that the page size changes per device and also per
orientation.
A piece of text can for instance be on page 8 when I hold my phone
vertically, but it moves to page 7 when I hold it horizontally.
This because the viewer can put more text on the screen when I hold it
horizontally.

A possible solution is to not refer to a page but to a resource and a
position within that resource.
Example: chapter6.html, 17th character from the start.

regards,
paul

[Christian Brugeron (gmail)]

In some epubs, there is a pagelist resource, close to the spine. It may help

cb