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Re: PDF to XML

• From: alexander garcia <alexgarciac@gmail.com>
• To: "Flanders, Charles E (US SSA)" <charles.flanders@baesystems.com>
• Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 14:18:33 -0500

try crocodo

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> On May 14, 2014, at 12:12, "Flanders, Charles E (US SSA)" <charles.flanders@baesystems.com> wrote:
> 
> I do a lot of XML conversion work from various sources (Word, Interleaf/Quicksilver, Framemaker, PDF). We have some older publications that exist in PDF only and need to get them into a MIL-STD XML structure. One process I use is to save the PDF to RTF using Acrobat Professional. I then use a tool, "rtfx.exe" to convert the RTF to well-formed XML. The tool is available here:
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> http://thewalter.net/stef/software/rtfx/
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> I've found if the files are table heavy, I get better table structures by saving the RTF to .DOCX then back to RTF again.
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> 
> 
> 
> Charles Flanders
> Senior IETM Developer | Certified XML Developer
> charles.flanders@baesystems.com
> BAE Systems | Land & Armaments | York, Pennsylvania
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ihe Onwuka [mailto:ihe.onwuka@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 9:37 AM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject:  PDF to XML
> 
> Is there a  tool/process for such conversions? I suppose I could always do it with Adobe Acrobat Professional (can I?).
> 
> Be grateful for commentary from someone who has been there before.
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