[Corpora-List] corpus of textbooks; "Just download the PDF's and convert to text"

[Martin Reynaert]

Hi Ramesh,

We have written about this, on the basis of our experiences in building 
a new reference corpus for Dutch, in:

Title     "Beyond SoNaR: towards the facilitation of large corpus 
building efforts"

http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/summaries/748.html

The e) issue you raise is not minor when building a large corpus...

Greetings,

Martin

On 10/12/2012 12:28 PM, Krishnamurthy, Ramesh wrote:
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> Hi Mark
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> Several people have asked recently about the easiest way to convert PDF files to plain text
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> (including Rama Meganathan on this list). I know there are various problems:
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> a) graphic PDFs rather than text PDFs - eg when people have scanned older texts
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> that were not created/available as digitized text?
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> b) columnar layout
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> c) embedded graphics, eg photos, diagrams, graphs
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> d) software that can only process one page at a time, or outputs one file per page
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> e) minor irritations, such as page numbers and headers/footers that need to be edited out
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> What is curently the easiest method/software to convert PDF files to plain text files?
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> best
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> Ramesh
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> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:37:54 +0000
> From: Mark Davies <Mark_Davies at byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] corpus of textbooks
> To: MAT T <terrettgnome at hotmail.com>, "corpora at uib.no"
> <corpora at uib.no>
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> Lots of free textbooks (legally!) at: http://www.ck12.org/ . Just download the PDF's and convert to text.
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> Mark Davies
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> Mark Davies
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> http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/
> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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