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jakiwar
06-30-2009, 07:54 AM
Hi,

I'm not sure I put this thread in the right place, correct me if I were wrong..

I wonder about the possibility to upload and publish pdf files on a webpage, more specifically it's for a database service available at the web where non IT-guys are supposed to publish examples about road planning. However, it turns out, these examples are quite often in pdf-format, and the people responsible are busy and don't really want to rewrite all the stuff (or it's a lot of layout etc).

Anyway, I have been googling for some kind of pdf to html API, though I have not found anything. Found a few converter softwares, with rather crappy reviews though.

The question is, how do i make an automated service to upload, "OCR" (so i can search") and publish pdf-documents on the web?

Charles
06-30-2009, 09:50 AM
That's going to depend upon how the PDFs were created. If they are tagged PDFs it should be simple. If, as is likely, they are scans of paper documents then start typing.

jakiwar
07-02-2009, 02:05 PM
Actually it's mainly tagged documents, which is good. Do you have any tip on something easily available that I could implement?