Okay, spoke too soon...
WinPDFdata only extracts PDF informational data, not content.
Sorrry about that, Chief.
<<<john>>>
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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of John Ruschmeyer
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] pdf for Newton?
Actually, such a web site exists at http://access.adobe.com though I'm not
overly impressed with the output.
The problem seems to be that while *lots* of apps exist to generate a PDF,
most of the ones to convert from a PDF are Acrobat plugins.
Doing a little searching turned up something called WinPDFdata at
http://www.sanface.com/winpdfdata.html
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it is apparently a Perl/Tk app
that converts PDF to HTML. The distribution includes a Win32 executable.
This looks like it might have some promise...
<<<john>>>
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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of eric a . Farris
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:11:34AM -0500, Eric L. Strobel wrote:
>
> Actually, there might be a third alternative. What if there were an
> "engine" on a website somewhere that you fed the URL of a PDF file, and it
> either converts it to NewtonBook or HTML? (I'm thinking that if it's done
> right, Palm users would access it too, but you could try and charge them
in
> order to fund it and leave it free for Newt users. :-) )
this might be an option. all the tools are there. there are a bunch of
free tools to work with PDF files for *Nix. it should be possible (for
some smart guy/gal somewhere) to run a file in PDF through filters to
extract the text and images, and then:
* convert it to HTML suitable for Newt's Cape
or * convert it to LaTeX suitable for ViewMP
or * script the ol' Newton Press
i predict, though, that the PDF would have to be a pretty simple one for
this to work.
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