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From: Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC
Date: May 19, 2005 4:22PM


Wayne,

1. Have you ever used the online conversation tools for Adobe
PDF documents
(http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html) ? I
don't know if that will meet your immediate needs.

2. Are you using the latest version of PDFtoHTML
(http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/)?

3. I also have previously used Ghostscript to extract the plain
text. While looking for the latest version I came across "PSTOTEXT"
(http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.htmlhttp://researc
h.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html) which actually may be of
more use to you.

4. Finally, I just came across PDF995
(http://www.pdf995.com/faq.html) which seems to indicate it will output
PDF to HTML - I'm guessing that would be the best option yet. Seems like
it is only 19.00 or so.

Hope that helps.

Regards,


Norman Robinson



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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Wayne Dick
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:10 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] PDF to HTML or XML or something useful


Hi I am looking for a product that translates PDF to HTML or XML,
hopefully in an accessible format. The PDF does not work with my
WebAdapt2Me or anything that produces accessible alternative text
formats. I have a product called imaginatively, PDFtoHTML, but its
output is very odd. I've made style sheets that civilize it, but you
can only do so much with strange markup.

So, any ideas? I'd really like to start reading the ACM Digital Library

is a little comfort.

Sincerely, Wayne Dick, Chair CECS
CSU Long Beach
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