[p2p-research] reverting from pdf to word query

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks to all, I think that Bernard has enough suggestions to try out,

Michel

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Chris Watkins <
chriswaterguy at appropedia.org> wrote:

> So for, the only thing I'm aware of that works well is using Acrobat Reader
> Professional. Universities or workplaces often have it. If you have this,
> see Save a PDF file as a Word document, HTML file, or image<http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/acr7at_savepdfas/>
> .
>
> We work with PDF documents at Appropedia sometimes, taking them and converting
> to wiki markup<http://www.appropedia.org/Help:Porting_PDF_files_to_MediaWiki>,
> and it starts with getting access to this program. We'd certainly like a
> smoother process, and an open source process. I'm aware of the programs that
> Sam mentions, but I haven't had the chance to try yet (I need to sit down
> with a Linux wizard and learn how to compile packages).
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:22, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear friends,
>> >
>> > I hope someone can help with this small technical query from Bernard
>> Lietaer:
>> >
>> > "Is there a solution to revert the pdf version to a Word version?"
>>
>> Sam writes: It's too bad that PDF does not contain some form of
>> metadata, (like SVG for instance) that would make conversion an easier
>> task.
>>
>> http://www.scribus.net/ has limited success *editng* PDF documents:
>> http://rants.scribus.net/2006/12/10/pdf-surgery/ if you are simply
>> looking to change what is in it.
>>
>> PDF was orginally largely used in practice as format for people in the
>> printing industry to maintain document image quality. It's really good
>> for this purpose, but not so great for sharing a co-editable document.
>>
>> Also, I have heard that people have had good success with PDF2HTML or
>> to XML conversions (I believe there is a Perl script that will do
>> this, and I recall trying it out several years ago). Then, you could
>> do HTML or XML to > Your favorite desktop document editor
>>
>> Here's one written on C++
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Michel
>> >
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