in addition to that i doubt scribd will make pdf2html5 available for the public domain ... if there will be such a tool...
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Matthew Richer < [email protected]> wrote: > Yousif, > > > > To be fair you picked the one page that was probably an image in the > original document and not vector. If you scroll through the other pages of > the linked document you can select the text and do the other things you > could do in Scribd before. > > > > Although, I would have to admit that I am curious as to Matthias' stance on > SWFTools from here on out considering he is now working at Scribd. Don't > get me wrong, I'm more than happy for him and his new position but if we run > out of maintainers for this project it would be something I should be > contemplating about. > > > > Matt > > > > *From:* > swftools-common-bounces+matthew.richer=conceptshare....@nongnu.org[mailto: > swftools-common-bounces+matthew.richer<swftools-common-bounces%2Bmatthew.richer> > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Yousif Masoud > *Sent:* Friday, May 07, 2010 10:56 AM > *To:* Lasconic > *Cc:* [email protected] > > *Subject:* Re: [Swftools-common] Swftools, PDF and HTML5 > > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Lasconic <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.scribd.com/documents/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5 > > > So they've decided to convert pages in the document to jpg images as can be > seen here: > > > http://htmlimg1.scribdassets.com/jwso820jat4vtds/images/1-c699aa0f30/000.jpg > > I wonder why they chose jpg. > > Google has demonstrated the beauty of text pattern recognition in png > images. >
