[Corpora-List] PDF Conversion

[Tom Emerson]

Ken Litkowski writes:
> Is anyone aware of free software that will process PDF documents into 
> text streams?  There is a PDF2HTML (with an XML option) that will create 
> page-centric versions, but this does not really distinguish text from 
> format.  I want to ignore (or be able to treat separately) such things 
> as headers, footnotes, tables, figures, and equations.  (Note that even 
> Google retains the page-centric view.)

Given that PDF is a page-centric format, so you are unlikely to find
something that does what you are looking for: headers, footnotes,
tables, etc. are not going to be flagged from the surrounding content
in any special way.

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Tom Emerson                                          Basis Technology Corp.
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