From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF] Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:21:26 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87o7osp4ck.fsf@web.de> <704a63ef-c56d-f892-1e3f-9ee0f884b038@mousecar.com> <87y1nsmgwz.fsf@web.de> <0e6c9b8a-b70f-d244-c031-68c0c58dca86@mousecar.com> <77a3b68b-a9f1-f8e7-176c-d929c85eb472@uni-koeln.de> <31dffcc9-bda2-b340-a09c-fe3d3a1b3a40@mousecar.com> <57456f0e-5e5e-42d3-6e33-2cdd10d974c5@uni-koeln.de> <5064494c-5c24-ed45-a316-ea90d711ce94@mousecar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4376"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) Cc: gebser@mousecar.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 23 10:25:55 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pfHCl-0000r9-7X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:25:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pfHCF-0004X1-Ht; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pfHCE-0004Wr-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pfHCB-0004O1-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.14.84]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000F5D22.00000000641C1AE2.00000E8E; Thu, 23 Mar 2023 02:24:50 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Yuri Khan , gebser@mousecar.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143092 Archived-At: * Yuri Khan [2023-03-22 12:20]: > Of course, exporting to PDF is a one-way street, therefore, all actual > editing needs to be done on the source LibreOffice document. Okay, though, look at these nice example how it can be converted to HTML: pdf2htmlEX by coolwanglu: https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/ pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/geneve.html: https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/geneve.html pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/cheat.html: https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/cheat.html pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/issue65_en.html: https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/issue65_en.html pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html: https://pdf2htmlex.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html So far it is possible to convert PDF to plain text provided there was some text inside, and to HTML. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/