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Subject: Re: PDF to FO tool?
From: scruss@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:50:15 -0400
fo tool case
jeremyf@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I have been earnestly trying to find a tool that
> converts a .PDF file to .FO or some close
> approximation of that.

this problem is Hard in the general case. I have had some success with pdftohtml <http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/> in XML mode. Last time I did this, pdftohtml didn't created FO, and actually needed some help to generate well-formed XML. The output was useful, though.

Beware of multicolumn output, weird character encoding and/or weird character subsetting. Here be dragons. Big ones.

I'm told that a company here in Toronto founded by one of the SoftQuad people is working on a commercial solution to this with good AI.

 Stewart



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