On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:21, Robert Paris wrote: > >Probably not in any realistically useful way. People on this list > >can point you to software that can read the text in a PDF. From that > >point you could start to construct XML files, but this is probably > >not something you want to undertake lightly.
> > Thanks, I would like to hear about those other options from people. > I thought somebody would. There are libraries that help you read from PDF. As an example, Google search results for PDF files usually have an option to view the file as a PDF. That conversion is half the battle. You can convert the HTML to XHTML (if necessary) and that is easily transformed to XSL-FO according to another thread of this week. Of course, your document won't be in a helpfully structured XML form. > Can you also tell me why you think it's unlikely to be useful? Why is it so > hard to go back to "fo" or XML from PDF if the PDF structure fits so well > with fo/xml? There was a thread about this last year: http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/BrowseList?listId=64&by=thread&from=486484 The conclusion seems to be 'don't even think about it'. Of course, you may have no choice. -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
