Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> It’s possible, but it’s a  LOT of work.  There is nothing built into 
> iText to do this

I had a report in plain PDF with the following text:

PRESENT:
F. Lloyd Wright, R. Piano, A. Rossi,
R. Koolhaas, B. Van Reeth, S. Beel,
B. Lowagie

I converted this PDF to PDF-1a with Acrobat.
Acrobat assumed that "PRESENT" and "F. Lloyd
Wright, R. Piano, A. Rossi," were P(aragraphs).
The other two lines were tagged as a list with
labels "R." and "B." ;-)

I don't complain about this: all in all, I was
very pleased with the result.

I'm just given this example to show the OP that
it's extremely difficult to convert a PDF without
any structure to a PDF with structure without
human intervention.

That's also what common sense tells us.
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