What's the best PDF to HTML program?
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...Please define "Best". ;) (I just use PDF Download[^] - it's easy, and my needs are simple)
Free, crap-free (as in, doesn't want to install G|A|Y toolbar or put e-bay links to random places), no hassle to set up or use, works on all PDF you come across, results look good in all mainstream browsers, fast enough, ideally can be automated. Now *that* was simple.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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I've tried some free ones, some online ones, Adobe Online (best so far), BCL's version, PDF Ripper, and PrimoPDF. There has to be something better. Is there?
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
Does it have to be .pdf? You can also save a whole page with all data to a single .MHT file that can be displayed in IE.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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Does it have to be .pdf? You can also save a whole page with all data to a single .MHT file that can be displayed in IE.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v serverYes sir, it has to be .pdf
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
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Fair enough. So say I have this in PDF:
32 [finishedSquiggles removeAllObjects]; // clear the array of squiggles
33 [self setNeedsDisplay]; // refresh the display
34 } // end method resetView
35
36 // draw the view
37 - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rectWhen I make the conversion, I want it to come out looking as close to the above as possible. And not like this:
<
TABLE
align="center" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2<
TR<
TH
align="left" width="25" valign="top" height="12"88<
/TH<
TD
align="left" width="448" valign="top" height="12"
// called whenever the user places a finger on the screen <
/TD
<
/TR
<
TR<
TH
align="left" width="25" valign="top" height="14"89<
/TH<
TD
align="left" width="448" valign="top" height="14"- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event <
/TD
<
/TR
Which is how Adobe Online does it, and "the best" I've seen at doing this so far. Sadly :((
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
Are you doing an iPhone application for CP?
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event <
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Fair enough. So say I have this in PDF:
32 [finishedSquiggles removeAllObjects]; // clear the array of squiggles
33 [self setNeedsDisplay]; // refresh the display
34 } // end method resetView
35
36 // draw the view
37 - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rectWhen I make the conversion, I want it to come out looking as close to the above as possible. And not like this:
<
TABLE
align="center" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2<
TR<
TH
align="left" width="25" valign="top" height="12"88<
/TH<
TD
align="left" width="448" valign="top" height="12"
// called whenever the user places a finger on the screen <
/TD
<
/TR
<
TR<
TH
align="left" width="25" valign="top" height="14"89<
/TH<
TD
align="left" width="448" valign="top" height="14"- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event <
/TD
<
/TR
Which is how Adobe Online does it, and "the best" I've seen at doing this so far. Sadly :((
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event <
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Free, crap-free (as in, doesn't want to install G|A|Y toolbar or put e-bay links to random places), no hassle to set up or use, works on all PDF you come across, results look good in all mainstream browsers, fast enough, ideally can be automated. Now *that* was simple.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v serverHave you tried G|A|Y toolbar v2.0? It's much better than 1.0.
Best wishes, Hans
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Are you doing an iPhone application for CP?
That'd be cool, but not what I'm doing. I'm prepping a book chapter on iPhone development. But what kind of Code Project iPhone application would you want to see?
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
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Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
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Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
Yeah. ;-) FWIW, Google's even given up: they appear to have gone to using an odd little "viewer" built around images (similar to their book search) instead of offering "view as HTML" for PDF search results. Have you considered starting with HTML (or DocBook...), and just converting to PDF as-needed?
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Yeah. ;-) FWIW, Google's even given up: they appear to have gone to using an odd little "viewer" built around images (similar to their book search) instead of offering "view as HTML" for PDF search results. Have you considered starting with HTML (or DocBook...), and just converting to PDF as-needed?
Starting out with HTML would be ideal, but in this case I only have PDF :( Thanks for trying though! I'm starting to think PDF to HTML is just a bad idea
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
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Yeah. ;-) FWIW, Google's even given up: they appear to have gone to using an odd little "viewer" built around images (similar to their book search) instead of offering "view as HTML" for PDF search results. Have you considered starting with HTML (or DocBook...), and just converting to PDF as-needed?
Shog9 wrote:
an odd little "viewer" built around images
That's one of the brilliant JavaScript + Web hacks I have seen. Lot of efforts to make it look like behave like PDF.
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Shog9 wrote:
an odd little "viewer" built around images
That's one of the brilliant JavaScript + Web hacks I have seen. Lot of efforts to make it look like behave like PDF.
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Starting out with HTML would be ideal, but in this case I only have PDF :( Thanks for trying though! I'm starting to think PDF to HTML is just a bad idea
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
Sean Ewington wrote:
I'm starting to think PDF to HTML is just a bad idea
Well, if you think about it, it's pretty low-level; even basic HTML has a lot more semantic / meta information encoded in it, and you just can't reliably recreate that from what ends up in a PDF. It'd be like trying to decompile a binary executable program without any information on which compiler originally created it...
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Free, crap-free (as in, doesn't want to install G|A|Y toolbar or put e-bay links to random places), no hassle to set up or use, works on all PDF you come across, results look good in all mainstream browsers, fast enough, ideally can be automated. Now *that* was simple.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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I've tried some free ones, some online ones, Adobe Online (best so far), BCL's version, PDF Ripper, and PrimoPDF. There has to be something better. Is there?
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
I've heard open office produces non-insane html from docs... maybe it could handle pdfs as well?
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I've heard open office produces non-insane html from docs... maybe it could handle pdfs as well?
Open Office to my knowledge doesn't import pdf. It'll export as pdf, but it doesn't import. That's as of version 3.1.
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I've tried some free ones, some online ones, Adobe Online (best so far), BCL's version, PDF Ripper, and PrimoPDF. There has to be something better. Is there?
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
Have you tried Many2PDFX.dll from Gnostice? The offer a .NET, VCL, and Java components for PDF. http://www.gnostice.com/[^]
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." - Red Adair
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I've tried some free ones, some online ones, Adobe Online (best so far), BCL's version, PDF Ripper, and PrimoPDF. There has to be something better. Is there?
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
Not to HTML but pdftoword.com has a fantastic online converter to .doc (also does .rtf) This may be a useful path for you. All the best
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peterchen wrote:
G|A|Y toolbar
:laugh: :laugh:
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
G|A|Y toolbar? It must be one of those San Francisco Specials'
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I've tried some free ones, some online ones, Adobe Online (best so far), BCL's version, PDF Ripper, and PrimoPDF. There has to be something better. Is there?
Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project
try somepdf.com