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We had almost the exact same question back in December, with the same set of answers.

Following up from what CountZero just said, and what I posted back then, this will always be a very hard problem because PDF files are not designed to have structure, they are more like a printout in electronic form. You can think of them more as postscript that is designed to be viewable on screen as well as on paper. PDF does not contain blocks of text in order with formatting, just lines of text in particular fonts. It is up to the human who reads those lines to decide what is a heading, column or foot note.

Any tool to convert PDF to html, (word, plan text, etc) has to use heuristics to guess structure from this unstructured text on a page. Those tools tend to be expensive, proprietary, and inexact, especially when faced with unusual layout such as multiple column or embedded images. OCR tools face similar problems for the same reasons.


In reply to Re: Need Help for Convert PDF to HTML by chrestomanci
in thread Need Help for Convert PDF to HTML by satzbu

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