Re: Extract equations from a PDF file

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From: Alan Connor
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 03:05

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On 22 Sep 2004 19:29:05 -0700, Fajar Suryawan
<fajar96te@yahoo.com> wrote:

><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

pstotext   produces text files from ps or pdf that are far from
           perfect, but it may help the OP.

pdf2ps    would turn the file into ps, which is at least ascii,
          and easier to do stuff with.


AC

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