[Tugindia] Re: pdf to tex
Mahesh T. Pai
paivakil at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 04:44:19 CET 2006
"dowen" <dowen at carib-link.net> writes:
> Hi, Everyone,
>
> I would appreciate any help in finding how to convert a PDF file to a TEX
> file so that I may use this with Latex.
Not Easy; as it depends on the origin of the pdf file. There are
several pdfs which display text; but are actually images embedded in
the pdf. It would be well-nigh impossible to convert such embedded
images to text.
That said, if the source pdf is generated by a proper text formatting
program you can use pdftohtml to convert pdfs to xml or html; or
probably pdftotext and work the output files.
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