Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:04:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML Message-ID: <201010270004.o9R04o1Y004753@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Oct 26 13:28:24 2010 > Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:30:01 -0700 > From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Cc: > Subject: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain > HTML > > > > One thing that Linux misses--or seems to--is all the conversion > programs that go from one format to another. I _was_ able to use > abiread to get a PDF text into an obscure HTML, but hundreds of > paragraphs get broken up. So: is there any conversion program to > do it *right*? Authoritative answer: "maybe". This is one of those things where there's no subsitute for a trained eyeball. Depending on _how_ the PDF was generated, thee can be things in it that 'look like' breaks to a mechanical parser, but don't appear that way on the page. It's -really- hard for a parser to tell a 'near no-op' from a 'something' that does something 'significant'. Maybe Ghostscript's "pdf2ps", followed by "ps2ascii"; then wrap it in minimal HTML framing that simply declares it to be a '<pre>' block.
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