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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: x.piter@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: orgmode and pdf
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:53:22 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81mx2p73gl.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vchdd02l.fsf@cica.cica> (x. piter's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:40:02 +0200")

x.piter@gmail.com writes:

> Hi list.
> I try to make a workflow to mine data from pdfs into org mode.
> I prefer to read in emacs, since I have fast dictionary lookup in it and
> many other things.
> There are two tools I think useful for conversion of pdfs into txt:
> cuneiform - to extract text, and pdfimages for image extraction.
> Cuneiform is better then other text extractors (what I have tried) in
> handling two columned
> pdfs.

PdfEdit seems interesting as well.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit
http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/pdf2text/

ps: I have no experience using PdfEdit or how it fares wrt images and
captions.

> A pdf as split to pages and each of them processed separateddly
> Using this two programs and some scripting I believe it is possible to
> convert pdf in org file. However there are two issues I would like to
> solve.
> 1) Is there any way to extract  figure captions from a pdf?
> 2) I have no solution for formulas and Greek letters. The only way to
> handle it would be
> to consult an image of the page.
> Any suggestions about it? Have somebody tried something similar. 
> Thanks.
> Petro.
>
>
>
>
>

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-24  8:40 orgmode and pdf x.piter
2012-07-24 12:23 ` Jambunathan K [this message]

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