I have investigated this topic for some days. All you need is Adobe Acrobat
(look, not Acrobat Reader). This _commercial_ software allows to create PDF
documents (which is a proprietary format by Adobe) and to convert them from
several formats.
I have also a question:
How can I convert PDF documents to text or HTML?
This is required for building a search program over a set of documents in
PDF format. I am aware of two solutions: (1) Using Ghost View with the pdf
to text option, and (2) sending the document to an email address which is
provided by Adobe. Neither of these two solutions is reasonable for the
search program, because the first involves one by one online conversion,
and the second one implies to publish documentation over the Internet, and
it is quite slow. Do you know about other solutions?
Thank you
Jose Maria
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Jose Maria Gomez Hidalgo
Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
Universidad Europea de Madrid - CEES
28670 - Villaviciosa de Odon - MADRID Tfno: (91) 616 94 00 Ext. 670
e-mail: jmgomez@dinar.esi.uem.es WWW: http://www.esi.uem.es/~jmgomez/
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