Re: [jats-list] convert PDF to JATS or BITS XML

["Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, I just discovered that the GROBID demo has moved to
http://scite-it.eu/ .  --Kevin

On 5/7/14 8:47 AM, Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> I don't have experience, but here is a list of tools I'm aware of that
> convert PDF to an XML format of some sort:
>
> * GROBID -- uses heuristics to convert a vector PDF into TEI. See
> sourcecode ( https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid) and demo site (
> http://grobid.no-ip.org/ ).
>
> * pdf2xml ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf2xml/ )
>
> * pdfx ( http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/ ) -- uses heuristics to convert a
> vector PDF into bpdfx-xmlb.  Alex Garnett with the Public Knowledge
> Project has a pipeline that converts to JATS.
>
> * LA-PDFText ( http://code.google.com/p/lapdftext/ ) --  turns PDF into
> some sort of XML
>
> * Merops ( http://www.shabash.net/merops/default.html ) -- closed-source
> and expensive solution for generating NLM XML, among other formats
>
> * pdf2htmlEX ( https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX ) -- If I
> understood Liza Daly correctly at AAUP 2013, it creates HTML5 with SVG
> (nonreflowable output).
>
> * see bTools and Ideasb section of
> https://web.archive.org/web/20130921075854/http://scholrev.org/hackathon
>
> --Kevin
>
> On 5/7/14 7:52 AM, Wei Zhao w.zhao@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Any body had experience to convert PDF to JATS or BITS XML? Any
> > suggestions for the conversion tools other than pdfx?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wei