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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:10:46 -0700, Lloyd Sumpter
<lsumpter@dccnet.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:39:29 +0200, horacio wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> could somebody tell me if it is possible to extract equations
>> from a paper in a PDF file ? My objective is to paste them to
>> a TEX file, and to render after to a DVI file to achieve the
>> same result than in the original PDF file (I understand papers
>> are usually written in TEX files and rendered after to DVI or
>> PDF files). I know I can do this with plain text, but I do not
>> know how to handle this situation with equations (although it
>> is possible to copy them as images and then paste).
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> Again, I'm not sure if this is what you want, but pstoedit
> converts ps or pdf files to one of many editable formats,
> including "latex2e", and "Mathematica Graphics". Check it out!
>
> Lloyd Sumpter
>

Debian stable package description:

Package: pstoedit
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 763
Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.21-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, gs
Suggests: xfig | ivtools-bin | tgif | transfig
Filename: pool/main/p/pstoedit/pstoedit_3.21-2_i386.deb
Size: 231664
MD5sum: 0a9a45aafa16bc7c3b477f97d56ea68d

Description: PostScript and PDF files to editable vector graphics
converter. pstoedit converts Postscript and PDF files to various
editable vector graphic formats including tgif, xfig, PDF
graphics, gnuplot format, idraw, MetaPost, GNU Metafile, PIC,
Killustrator and flattened PostScript.  

Task: tex

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How does one edit files like those?



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