Comments on: PDF to HTML Converter Pro is free if you act quickly enough—and here are some much-needed activation tips http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:51:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: May http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/#comment-838729 May Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:24:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6398#comment-838729 I find another great tool for coverting pdf fo html. PDF to HTML Batch Converter is a useful pdf tool, the converter produces fully functional HTML documents with text, pictures, graphics, table, links and bookmarks, using the original PDF document formatting, and it is more suitable for Internet publishing. http://www.sharewarecheap.com/PDF-to-HTML-batch-converter-command-line_software_1702.html I find another great tool for coverting pdf fo html. PDF to HTML Batch Converter is a useful pdf tool, the converter produces fully functional HTML documents with text, pictures, graphics, table, links and bookmarks, using the original PDF document formatting, and it is more suitable for Internet publishing.

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]]> By: Ray http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/#comment-307372 Ray Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:14:06 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6398#comment-307372 I tried installing it and before it even started, it tried to access the internet and would not install until it had done some communicating to the other end. Why? What is going on here? Needless to say, I deleted it. I tried installing it and before it even started, it tried to access the internet and would not install until it had done some communicating to the other end. Why? What is going on here? Needless to say, I deleted it.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/#comment-306497 David Rothman Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:05:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6398#comment-306497 I agree that PDF to HTML needs to offer us something decent in the paragraph rec department, but at least with PalmFiction reader, I was able to get around this and insert paragraphs in the HTML to the point where things were readable. Oh, the horrors of eBabel! Meanwhile thanks for yet another informative post, Eliot! David I agree that PDF to HTML needs to offer us something decent in the paragraph rec department, but at least with PalmFiction reader, I was able to get around this and insert paragraphs in the HTML to the point where things were readable. Oh, the horrors of eBabel! Meanwhile thanks for yet another informative post, Eliot! David

]]> By: Eliot Kimber http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/#comment-306461 Eliot Kimber Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:39:40 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6398#comment-306461 The Java PDFBox library (www.pdfbox.org) provides a reasonably good HTML extractor, although it tries to do paragraph recognition, which the the PDF to HTML Pro product does not seem to try to do (at least in the one sample I tried it was placing each separate text chunk absolutely on the HTML page, which recreates the original presentation pretty closely but doesn't provide any sort of useful reflow--but I was working with a somewhat strange document so it might do better on more tractable content). The PDFBox tools are not as polished but they are free and the underlying PDF processing is quite complete and accurate. I've used it to do some pretty sophisticated custom PDF processing. Cheers, Eliot The Java PDFBox library (www.pdfbox.org) provides a reasonably good HTML extractor, although it tries to do paragraph recognition, which the the PDF to HTML Pro product does not seem to try to do (at least in the one sample I tried it was placing each separate text chunk absolutely on the HTML page, which recreates the original presentation pretty closely but doesn’t provide any sort of useful reflow–but I was working with a somewhat strange document so it might do better on more tractable content).

The PDFBox tools are not as polished but they are free and the underlying PDF processing is quite complete and accurate. I’ve used it to do some pretty sophisticated custom PDF processing.

Cheers,

Eliot

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/#comment-306340 David Rothman Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:26:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6398#comment-306340 Preston, I <a href="http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6401" rel="nofollow">couldn't agree more</a>---hence, my never-dying interest in e-book standards. We're not the only ones. Just ask the good ladies at <a href="http://www.DearAuthor.com" rel="nofollow">DearAuthor.com</a>. Simply put, we're talking about important market segments where publishers are missing out on major opportunities because of the Tower of eBabel. The ladies hate having to be format jockeys, and so do I. PDF is a great format for printing paper copies that look just-so, but it's rotten for plain e-reading, and even Bill McCoy at Adobe has reached that same conclusion---in his push at the IDPF for a reflowable standard that can display well on a variety of devices. I just hope that he'll see the virtues of the OpenReader approach, a more durable standard that what the IDPF has so far. Thanks, David Preston, I couldn’t agree more—hence, my never-dying interest in e-book standards. We’re not the only ones. Just ask the good ladies at DearAuthor.com. Simply put, we’re talking about important market segments where publishers are missing out on major opportunities because of the Tower of eBabel. The ladies hate having to be format jockeys, and so do I.

PDF is a great format for printing paper copies that look just-so, but it’s rotten for plain e-reading, and even Bill McCoy at Adobe has reached that same conclusion—in his push at the IDPF for a reflowable standard that can display well on a variety of devices. I just hope that he’ll see the virtues of the OpenReader approach, a more durable standard that what the IDPF has so far.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Preston DuBose http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/08/pdf-to-html-converter-pro-is-free-if-you-act-quickly-enough/#comment-306308 Preston DuBose Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:09:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6398#comment-306308 It seems to me that converting to HTML (or just about any other format) from PDF is highly inefficient. PDF isn't a content-native format. The content started out in some other format (be it Word, InDesign, Quark, Illustrator, etc.) and was exported to PDF. Much like making a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, each format conversion is likely to introduce small errors or inconsistencies. In most cases, you'll get better results by converting to the desired format straight from the source file. It seems to me that converting to HTML (or just about any other format) from PDF is highly inefficient. PDF isn’t a content-native format. The content started out in some other format (be it Word, InDesign, Quark, Illustrator, etc.) and was exported to PDF. Much like making a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy, each format conversion is likely to introduce small errors or inconsistencies. In most cases, you’ll get better results by converting to the desired format straight from the source file.

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