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		sliverstorm on Nov 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Docverter, the hosted document conversion... It's probably possible to do, but nobody's needed one badly enough to do it.

zrail on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

There is actually an Apache project that can extract the text from a PDF. It does a passable job, but like I said all of the formatting is gone.

http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/text_extraction.html

Toshio on Nov 24, 2012 | [–]

There is a very good pdf-to-html converter at [0], so it's a two-step process.

[0] https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX

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