Re: [docbook-apps]PDF downconversion to docBook XML

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

One last thing, you can extract your presentation as SVG using PDG2SVG:

http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html

HTH

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
>  From my very limited experience I found that kword did a pretty good
> job at importing PDF. I used also OpenOffice to write out -poor-
> docbook.
>  You should be able to import your PDF file directly in KWord and
> write out (X)HTML file. Watch out that all your formatting will be
> lost (no more title, section...).
>
>  I used the following script to convert HTML to docbook:
>
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/Html2DocBook
>
>  But in my case, my input HTML was -somewhat- organized.
>
> Good luck
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Kurt A Richardson
> <kurt@iscepublishing.com> wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> I am new to DocBook, and XML-based publishing in general.   I run a small
>> publishing company (30 titles), that specializes in complexity theory and I
>> have been looking for ways to not only improve my little doc flow
>> methodology, but also make our content available to our readers in a variety
>> of new modes and formats.  I have been drawn to DocBook and the possibility
>> of using XSLT as a means to realize these goals.  I have little trouble
>> figuring out how to prepare new content and am hoping to produce our next
>> two titles purely from DocBook XML.  However, I also have about 6000 pages
>> of PDFs (not all having the same format) that I'd like to 'down convert' to
>> DocBook XML.  I am making SLOW progress and wondered if anyone here had any
>> bright ideas about how to approach this task... e.g., is PDF to html the
>> best first step?  Or does anyone know of any affordable services being
>> provided to do the down conversion for me.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide.
>>
>> I'm really rather excited about the possibilities that arise once I move our
>> publishing from Adobe CS to XML-based!
>>
>> Kind regards, Kurt
>>
>>
>>
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> Mathieu
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