[pdftex] How to covert pdf file into latex file?

John R. Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Thu Jul 13 03:24:28 CEST 2006


On Wednesday 12 July 2006 20:57, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John R Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> writes:
>   >
>   > You cannot back up from a pdf file into InDesign or Quark
>   > either.
>
> Are you sure?  If a program uses all the features defined in the PDF
> standard when producing a pdf file, I'm pretty sure that you can
> extract a lot of logical markup from the pdf file.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard

Well this would be a task on the order of converting a rtf file
to xml or vice versa.  And I know of no one who has even attempted this kind 
of
reverse engineering on a pdf file.

Do you?  


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