RE: [xml-dev] PDF to XML

["Flanders, Charles E (US SSA)" <charles.flanders@baesystems.com>]

I do a lot of XML conversion work from various sources (Word, Interleaf/Quicksilver, Framemaker, PDF). We have some older publications that exist in PDF only and need to get them into a MIL-STD XML structure. One process I use is to save the PDF to RTF using Acrobat Professional. I then use a tool, "rtfx.exe" to convert the RTF to well-formed XML. The tool is available here:

http://thewalter.net/stef/software/rtfx/

I've found if the files are table heavy, I get better table structures by saving the RTF to .DOCX then back to RTF again.




Charles Flanders
Senior IETM Developer | Certified XML Developer
charles.flanders@baesystems.com
BAE Systems | Land & Armaments | York, Pennsylvania

-----Original Message-----
From: Ihe Onwuka [mailto:ihe.onwuka@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 9:37 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] PDF to XML

Is there a  tool/process for such conversions? I suppose I could always do it with Adobe Acrobat Professional (can I?).

Be grateful for commentary from someone who has been there before.

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