I posted on this to see if pdfbox could offer insight s it is taken up. Dave pointed out that the functionality of pdfbox ws interesting to his company.
Louis > On 4 Feb 2015, at 12:03, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Peter Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 4 Feb 2015, at 5:47 pm, Edward Zimmermann <[email protected] >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>> >>> Does this have anything to do with Corinthia? No. Corinthia is about >> content and especially word processing formats (OOXML, ODF etc.).. >> Corinthia is at its core about pragmatic fidelity. The point of the >> bidirectional transformation model is to be able to reduce fidelity >> demands. Unless the project wants to get sidetracked into HiFi rendering >> (of DOCX or ODT) it's completely outside of the scope…. >> >> I think of PDF in the same way as I do PNG. It’s intended as an output >> format, not an input format. I know there are tools out there which are >> effectively half of an OCR system which can reconstruct a source document >> by inferring the logical structure from the layout (e.g. where a paragraph >> begins and ends), though this is quite a difficult problem and I’m not sure >> that it’d be within the scope of Corinthia (though if someone has ideas on >> this and wants to work on it, I’m all for it - it’s just a very difficult >> and very different task to writing filters for all the other formats we’ve >> discussed). > > +1 I think we currently have other more important tasks in corinthia. > > > rgds > jan i > >> >> On the other side is output to PDF - that is, typesetting. This is >> something I also think would be outside the scope of the project (at least >> based on my understanding of people’s interests to date). We basically rely >> on separate programs to do the typesetting of a document produced by the >> library, e.g. LaTeX, WebKit/other browser engines. >> >> -- >> Dr. Peter M. Kelly >> [email protected] <javascript:;> >> http://www.kellypmk.net/ >> >> PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> >> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > > -- > Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
