On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 08:50:18PM +0530, USM Bish wrote: >On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:32:02AM +0530, Rajesh wrote: >> >> I have downloaded PDF2Word v1.4. It can be loaded only 100 >> times afterwards you have to pay... But the conversion of >> tables etc. from pdf is not at all good... Secondly it is a >> windows utility... So conversion is not satisfactory... >> > >Rajesh, I have done this exercise about six months ago, but so >far not successful in getting a 100% pdf to M$-word converter >under Open Source. You may have to take alternate routes. > >If you are interested in converting simple pdf pages to .doc >format, there is an utility called "pdftohtml" on freshmeat. >This is good for simple texts, without tables etc. The HTML >pages can be handled by MS-Word. Things can be reformatted and >rearranged within Word itself without retyping. > >Work would be perhaps a bit less than what Ghosh had suggested >about use of the Adobe acroread text extraction. > >If you merely want to have a 1:1 replica, inclusive of images, >tables, double column formatting and the works, there is >another called "pdf2html" also on freshmeat. This converts the >pdf to ready to use png images, page by page. If you load these >sequentially inside Word, you'd have an identical copy ... (Not >very editable though). > >I suppose open source developers are not very convinced about >such an utility ... I have come across none in the last six >months ! Do let us know if you hit upon any ;-)
Thanks for the feedback.. Yes I know about pdftohtml utils...But requirement is of similar word file.. Will let the list know if I find any such utility.. Thanks a lot... Warm Regards -- Shriram (Rajesh) Fowkar Computer Programmer V. S. Dempo & Co. Pvt. Ltd., Dempo House, Campal, Panaji - Goa. Email : Shriram Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.dempos.com Phone : (0832)2226281 Ext.:387 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
