Re: Extract equations from a PDF file

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From: Fajar Suryawan
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:29

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<horacio@NOSPAMum.es> wrote in message news:<cis9ma$svj$1@unida.um.es>...
> Hello everybody,
> 
> could somebody tell me if it is possible to extract equations from a paper
> in a PDF file ? 

Simple answer, you don't.
PDF is printer language. There's no information on the mathematics'
original LaTeX-code.
Reverse engineering is nice, but not easy.

F

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