hello,
I tried using pdftohtml (from sourceforge) to convert one of my PDFs to HTML
to see if I could use this approach to populate my DSpace with HTML
equivalents of my PDFs. I was not worried if the conversion ignored text
extraction, since I have found that pdfbox can do that for me. I just want a
good rendered result. The users of the digital library are to be offered
HTML links as an alternative for PDFs, presumably for those that don't like
PDFs (for whatever reason).
I was impressed by the demo on the pdftohtml page but when I tried it out on
an academic journal the result was terrible. Perhaps there is a problem with
the two-column layout that is common in journals. The demo was in the style
of a newspaper article, i.e one column with interspersed pictures. I am
pleased to say that in spite of the pdftohtml problems it did at least
render the figures in the journal article properly. But the two-column
aspect was ignored and it looks like the maths was not handled either. The
journals I will be dealing with are nearly all scientific and will have lots
of maths in them.
So I was wondering, what tools have DSpace people used to convert from PDF
to HTML. Maybe people know about pdftohtml and can make some suggestions.
Maybe there is a better tool that people here know about. I think here is a
good place to ask because it is very common that a digital library offers
both PDF and non-PDF forms of the same document. Surely I can't be the only
one that wants to set up such a library starting only from the PDFs.
--
Regards,
Andrew M.
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