Re: [xml-dev] PDF to XML

try crocodo

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> On May 14, 2014, at 12:12, "Flanders, Charles E (US SSA)" <> wrote:
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> I do a lot of XML conversion work from various sources (Word, Interleaf/Quicksilver, Framemaker, PDF). We have some older publications that exist in PDF only and need to get them into a MIL-STD XML structure. One process I use is to save the PDF to RTF using Acrobat Professional. I then use a tool, "rtfx.exe" to convert the RTF to well-formed XML. The tool is available here:
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> http://thewalter.net/stef/software/rtfx/
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> I've found if the files are table heavy, I get better table structures by saving the RTF to .DOCX then back to RTF again.
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> Charles Flanders
> Senior IETM Developer | Certified XML Developer
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> BAE Systems | Land & Armaments | York, Pennsylvania
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ihe Onwuka [mailto:] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 9:37 AM
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> Subject: [xml-dev] PDF to XML
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> Is there a  tool/process for such conversions? I suppose I could always do it with Adobe Acrobat Professional (can I?).
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> Be grateful for commentary from someone who has been there before.
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