• keepthepace@slrpnk.net
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    18 days ago

    I love that PDFs are so difficult to transform into HTML, too

    FYI, if that’s relevant to your field, every new article published on arxiv.org now has a HTML render as well.

    And on many older publications, transforming “arxiv.org” into “ar5iv.org” leads to an HTML rendering that is a best-effort experiments they ran for a while.

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      18 days ago

      That’s really cool! What I really would like is a tool that converts PDFs to semantic HTML files. I took a peek there and it seems easier for them because they have the original LeX source.

      I think for arbitrary PDFs files the information just isn’t there. I’ve looked into it a bit and it’s sort of all over. A tool called pdf2htmlex is pretty good but it makes the HTML look exactly like the PDF.