OT - pdf to docbook

[Joe Malin]

Dear Sebastian,

You're welcome. I don't mean to come down hard on you or any other
potential DocBook users! I just want to clarify that DocBook isn't a
format, per se, it's a XML markup language that enforces a particular
structure. The analogous situation is converting a PDF to Microsoft
Word. You can do that, but that doesn't give you a Word document with a
particular set of styles. Similarly, you can convert PDF to XML, but
that doesn't give you DocBook XML.

If you want to convert an arbitrary, non-DocBook document to DocBook,
you have to convert it to text and then insert the XML tags. Some tool
out there may well be able to give you a "first pass", but I am certain
that you'd then have to clean it up by hand.

Joe

Sebastian Gil wrote:
> 2006/6/3, Joe Malin <jmalin at jmalin.com>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I think you have two separate issues here:
>>
>> 1. Converting from PDF format to some sort of XML/tagged format
>> 2. Converting from the XML/tagged format to DocBook.
>>
>
> I'm going to read more about DocBook, i thougth i could convert
> documents directly from any format..
> The pdf i want to convert are ordinary ones..  not structured in any
> specific format
>
> Thanks for the reply
> Sebastian
>