Hi Kurt, From my very limited experience I found that kword did a pretty good job at importing PDF. I used also OpenOffice to write out -poor- docbook. You should be able to import your PDF file directly in KWord and write out (X)HTML file. Watch out that all your formatting will be lost (no more title, section...).
I used the following script to convert HTML to docbook: http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/Html2DocBook But in my case, my input HTML was -somewhat- organized. Good luck On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Kurt A Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list > > I am new to DocBook, and XML-based publishing in general. I run a small > publishing company (30 titles), that specializes in complexity theory and I > have been looking for ways to not only improve my little doc flow > methodology, but also make our content available to our readers in a variety > of new modes and formats. I have been drawn to DocBook and the possibility > of using XSLT as a means to realize these goals. I have little trouble > figuring out how to prepare new content and am hoping to produce our next > two titles purely from DocBook XML. However, I also have about 6000 pages > of PDFs (not all having the same format) that I'd like to 'down convert' to > DocBook XML. I am making SLOW progress and wondered if anyone here had any > bright ideas about how to approach this task... e.g., is PDF to html the > best first step? Or does anyone know of any affordable services being > provided to do the down conversion for me. > > Many thanks in advance for any guidance you can provide. > > I'm really rather excited about the possibilities that arise once I move our > publishing from Adobe CS to XML-based! > > Kind regards, Kurt > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Mathieu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
