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>> Anyone know of a PS to xml (or html) converter? The shareware utility "Magellen" converts PDF to HTML. It makes every word into a span element. Then it makes a big stylesheet to position every word on the canvas individually by X and Y coodinate. If a word has multiple fonts, it will be split into separate words. If you text is simple lines, you can easily write a program to figure out how words will fit into lines, and then you can use the other style information to add style attributes and guess the best element names. Xerox has some product which does something like this at the inXight site. However, it all becomes very tricky if there is tables or graphs or equations or multiple columns or runarounds or initial large caps on paragraphs or sidebars etc etc. For that kind of text, you may find it easier to use OCR on a printout or to rekey the data; if you are not using the page for republishing, but merely want to index it or add metadata, then you could use Acrobat and keep it in PDF for better or worse. But don't believe marketing claims that you can magically go from unmarked-up legacy publications to usefully marked-up XML; the best you can expect is to go to some nice HTML. If some product claims more, be forgiving in your expectations! Rick Jelliffe xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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