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Convert any PDF document to properly structured XML or common formats like ePub in just a few clicks! Simply upload your PDF file and activate the conversion.

We advise our new users to start with our interactive web application PDF to ePub, which allows you to quickly test over a PDF and nicely see both the XML and ePub results.

Also, the present service is now available in a different flavor called Rossinante web service.

About the Application

This work is partly supported by the EU Integrated Project SHAMAN, co-funded within the 7th Framework Programme. More information about this project is available in a companion web service called PDF to ePub.

From a technical perspective, this service uses HTTPS as network transport protocol, so accessing it from an Intranet requires only setting properly the HTTP proxy, if any.

The server offers the same set of operations as the PDF to ePub web application:

PDF-to-Layout-XML: to convert a PDF file to layout-oriented (unstrutured) XML using the pdf2xml open source converter
Page header/Footer: to tag the page headers and page footers of all pages of the input document
Text segmentation and ordering: to order the textual contents of the document, create lines, and form paragraphs
Page number detection: to detect the numbering of the pages
Caption detection: to detect image and figure captions
Footnote detection
Table of Content (TOC) determination: to detect the TOC and determine where each entry points to in the document body
Export to ePub (soon)

In addition, it offers several operations that aggregate the previous ones:

PDF-to-LOGICAL-XML: to convert a PDF file to document-logic strutured XML. All steps before the export to ePub
PDF-to-ePub: all steps to convert from PDF to ePub, like in the web application (soon)

Have also a look at the open source Xeproc designer if your are interested in modelling document processing as XML pipelines.

PDF to XML

PDF to XML

About the Application

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