Re: [tw] Parse PDF into tiddlers

2017-09-06 Thread codacodercodacoder
On Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 2:16:36 PM UTC-5, tib...@sunyit.edu wrote: > > I found a tool that can convert a PDF textbook to epub, with minimal > loss/corruption. Do we have an epub import tool lying around? I think Steve > Schneider did something with epub in the spring. > > epub is a

Re: [tw] Parse PDF into tiddlers

2017-09-06 Thread @TiddlyTweeter
Epubs like docx files are assemblages. They are NOT really one file. They are wrappers. Find out how to UN-wrap it. See what you got in that specific epub format after unwrapping. Tell us what is in it. j. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki

Re: [tw] Parse PDF into tiddlers

2017-09-06 Thread tibbitl
I found a tool that can convert a PDF textbook to epub, with minimal loss/corruption. Do we have an epub import tool lying around? I think Steve Schneider did something with epub in the spring. On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 6:21:26 AM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > The trouble with PDF is tha

Re: [tw] Parse PDF into tiddlers

2017-09-01 Thread Jeremy Ruston
The trouble with PDF is that, contrary to expectations, it is actually an image file format, rather than a text document format. In other words, it doesn’t know anything about paragraphs, or headers, or footers; all it knows about are simple instructions to draw a given letter at given coordinat

[tw] Parse PDF into tiddlers

2017-08-31 Thread TonyM
Such a tool would be helpful. Personally I would look into tools to turn pdfs into text then import that, because there a many issues going from a highly formatted document type to plain text. Not to mention text inside images where some OCR is needed. Foxit reader and Pro is great for pdf work

[tw] Parse PDF into tiddlers

2017-08-31 Thread tibbitl
Hi All, I figured this may be a stretch but wanted to ask, is their any way to import a PDF into plain text tiddlers? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send