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Ed Wilts wrote:

>OK, consider yourself wrong :-).  We do this kind of thing regularly at
>work.  I'm not sure what tools we use (and I strongly suspect that they're
>Windows-based), and we have worked with quite a few different products, but
>I can say that the tools don't appear to be perfect yet.  We actually get
>quite a few customer documents sent to us in PDF format, and we need to
>extract the information out, massage the data, and produce print and HTML
>documents back.

The problem with this, of course, is that PDF is fundamentally a
presentation format, so whatever you get is likely to be suboptimally
organized.  Much better to start with XML or TeX source documents (or
even valid HTML 4.1).  I realize, naturally, that we don't always have
that choice.

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