@mdgate/epub 0.6.7 → 0.6.9

package/README.md

@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 # @mdgate/epub
 
-Convert EPUB books to Markdown. Outputs GitHub-Flavored Markdown. Works in Node, Edge, and
-browsers. No native addons.
+**Convert EPUB books to Markdown in TypeScript.**
 
-Handles: `.epub`, `.ibooks`
+[`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) reads `.epub` and `.ibooks` files directly in JavaScript and converts chapters into GitHub-Flavored Markdown, without Python, native addons, WASM, or an ebook app.
 
-## Usage
+Works in **Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, Edge runtimes, and browsers**.
+
+```bash
+npm install @mdgate/epub
+```
 
 ```ts
 import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/epub';
@@ -13,14 +16,145 @@ import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/epub';
 const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
 ```
 
-Compose with other converters:
+`bytes` is a `Uint8Array`, so the book can come from a file upload, object storage, an HTTP request, a browser file picker, or anywhere else your application gets bytes.
+
+---
+
+## Why [`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub)
+
+EPUB is a ZIP of HTML plus a spine. Dumping the archive is not a book an agent can read.
+
+[`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) is an EPUB reader written for the same runtime as your application:
+
+* **Pure TypeScript**
+* **EPUB → Markdown locally**
+* **No Python runtime**
+* **No native addons**
+* **No WASM runtime**
+* **Zero third-party runtime dependencies**
+* **Works with raw `Uint8Array` input**
+* **Detects EPUB packages from their contents, not only the filename**
+
+---
+
+## What it extracts
+
+[`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) opens the package, follows the spine, and converts chapter HTML through the shared HTML document model.
+
+The converter handles EPUB-specific concerns including:
+
+* spine order
+* chapter HTML as Markdown
+* headings, paragraphs, lists, links, and tables from the chapter markup
+* iBooks packages that use the same ZIP + HTML shape
+
+The output is Markdown that can be searched, indexed, chunked, cached, or passed directly to an AI agent.
+
+---
+
+## Node.js
+
+```ts
+import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/epub';
+
+const bytes = new Uint8Array(await readFile('book.epub'));
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+
+console.log(markdown);
+```
+
+---
+
+## Browser
+
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/epub';
+
+const file = input.files![0];
+const bytes = new Uint8Array(await file.arrayBuffer());
+
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+```
+
+---
+
+## Cloudflare Workers and Edge runtimes
+
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/epub';
+
+export default {
+  async fetch(request: Request) {
+    const bytes = new Uint8Array(await request.arrayBuffer());
+    const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+
+    return new Response(markdown, {
+      headers: {
+        'content-type': 'text/markdown; charset=utf-8',
+      },
+    });
+  },
+};
+```
+
+---
+
+## Format detection
+
+You do not need to trust the file extension.
+
+[`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) recognizes EPUB ZIP packages from their mimetype and container metadata.
+
+```ts
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes);
+```
+
+A path can still be supplied as a format hint when [`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) is used through [`@mdgate/converters`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/converters) or a reader composed with [`@mdgate/core`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/core), but the path is never used to read a file from disk.
+
+---
+
+## Compose it with other file readers
+
+[`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) implements the converter interface from [`@mdgate/core`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/core).
 
 ```ts
 import { create } from '@mdgate/core';
 import { epub } from '@mdgate/epub';
+import { pdf } from '@mdgate/pdf';
+
+const read = create([
+  epub(),
+  pdf(),
+]);
+```
+
+The application still uses one reading interface while each format remains independently installable.
+
+---
+
+## Need more than EPUB?
+
+If your application needs to read many different file types, use the complete converter set:
 
-const convert = create([epub()]);
+```bash
+npm install @mdgate/converters
 ```
 
-Part of [mdgate converters](https://github.com/mdgate/converters); install
-`@mdgate/converters` for every format at once.
+```ts
+import { toMarkdown } from '@mdgate/converters';
+
+const markdown = await toMarkdown(bytes, {
+  path: filename,
+});
+```
+
+[`@mdgate/epub`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters/tree/main/packages/epub) is one of the single-format packages in the open-source [`mdgate/converters`](https://github.com/mdgate/converters) project.
+
+For AI agents, the same converter architecture can be used to extend `read_file` from text files to real-world document formats.
+
+---
+
+## License
+
+MIT

package/package.json

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
   "name": "@mdgate/epub",
-  "version": "0.6.7",
+  "version": "0.6.9",
   "description": "mdgate EPUB converter",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",
-  "homepage": "https://demo.mdgate.dev",
+  "homepage": "https://convert.mdgate.dev",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "git+https://github.com/mdgate/converters.git",
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@
     "prepublishOnly": "bun run build"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@mdgate/containers": "0.6.7",
-    "@mdgate/core": "0.6.7",
-    "@mdgate/document": "0.6.7",
-    "@mdgate/html": "0.6.7",
-    "@mdgate/office-common": "0.6.7",
-    "@mdgate/utils": "0.6.7"
+    "@mdgate/containers": "0.6.9",
+    "@mdgate/core": "0.6.9",
+    "@mdgate/document": "0.6.9",
+    "@mdgate/html": "0.6.9",
+    "@mdgate/office-common": "0.6.9",
+    "@mdgate/utils": "0.6.9"
   },
   "publishConfig": {
     "access": "public"