[ale] OT: PDF to HTML printer?

Denny Chambers bugfix4u2 at bellsouth.net
Wed Nov 6 10:38:30 EST 2002


This company has been advertising on /. the last couple of days.

http://site1.pdf995.com/download.html

They have some cheaper software, but I am not sure how good it is. It is 
also windows only SW. If some gives it a try, post a report back here.

Denny

cfowler wrote:

>As much as I hate to see MS prosper, Adobe better allow people to make
>pdf's for free or  MS will take over with Xdoc.  Don;t provide pdf
>amking tools like an editor, just a distiller.
>
>On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:11, Denny Chambers wrote:
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>>Put the PDF on the web, and get Google to index it. Then you can pull 
>>the html version from them. ;-)
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>>Seriously, look at these:
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>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdf2html/?topic_id=867
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>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdftohtml/?topic_id=849
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>>HTH,
>>Denny
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>>Hogg, Russell E wrote:
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>>>A quick Off Topic Question this AM. 
>>>
>>>I have a couple of large PDFs that I need to turn into HTML. 
>>>I of course have the option of going in and just creating the HTML my 
>>>self as similar to the PDF as possible.
>>>
>>>But I'm hoping to save some time.  I figure this is do-able I know 
>>>google does it with PDFs that show up in their searches.  (view as HTML)
>>>
>>>A google search hasn't turned up anything except the adobe site's 
>>>converter which kills all the formating.
>>>
>>>So does anyone know what they do?  Maybe im just SOL and will have to 
>>>actually work.
>>>
>>>Any advice is much appreciated. 
>>>
>>>Russ
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