Corpora: Converting PDF files

[Paul Llido]

www.bcl-computers.com
can even do what you mentioned which is that of
converting from PDF to TIFF (using BCL-FREEBIRD).
They have all the conversion solutions you can
think of to the problems you have...

Paul Llido


--- Damon Allen Davison <davison at socal.rr.com> wrote:
> A lovely summary with many useful links.
>
> Slightly tangental to this discussion, I wanted to
> make a general remark
> on conversion, especially from image format.
>
> I wanted to underline that the current (5.0) full
> version of Adobe
> Acrobat can convert PDF files to RTF (without a
> plugin, actually), which
> most word processors can open.  This, however,
> depends on the kind of
> PDF you are dealing with.  If the file in question
> is text-encoded into
> a PDF, then there is no problem.  There are many
> tools for doing this,
> as the summary has shown.  On the other hand, if the
> text from the PDF
> file is actually an image (bitmap), then you would
> have to extract the
> images into TIFF format (or some other lossless
> compressed format) and
> run them though OCR software, preferably with a more
> robust consumer
> product like Caere/Scansoft's OmniPage Pro 11.  All
> of this has to be
> done on the Windows platform, since there are no
> comparable products for
> Linux (never was) or Macintosh (discontinued).
>
> I have had to go through a similar process using
> texts from the
> Bibliothèque Nationale de France's Gallica project.
> Fortunately, many
> of the texts there have already been OCR'd, making
> the process a lot
> easier.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
>
> Damon Allen Davison
>
> On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 06:54, ramesh at clg2.bham.ac.uk
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > In May 2001, I asked:
> > I'm working on a PC with Windows95.
> > I have MSWord 2000, Acrobat Reader5, and
> GSview3.6.
> > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to convert
> > PDF files into ASCII or MSWord?
> > And how....
> >
> > I received many helpful replies, and
> > promised to post a summary, but forgot.
> >
> [...]
> >
> --
> Damon Allen Davison
> mailto:davison at socal.rr.com
>
>
>


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