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

["Evan Owens eowens@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another PDX to XML project...but not JATS specific.

University of Manchester (UK) has a PDF to XML software called PDFX.  CrossRef
is looking at using this technology for a metadata extraction service for
small publishers who don't do full text XML.  Here's a conference paper about
this technology:

https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:218911

I heard in March that Manchester hasn't made the software open source yet but
they do seem to have a web service:   http://pdfx.cs.man.ac.uk/   so one could
try it out there.

Evan Owens, AIP Publishing LLC


-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarciac@xxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [jats-list] convert PDF to JATS or BITS XML

for academic papers, due to the heterogeneity in formats and ways to produce
the final pdf, the one tool that will give u a clean usable output is
crocodoc. I run jailbreaking the pdf, a workshop aiming to get usable text
from PDF. Here, by usable I mean clean, no mistakes, with bold, italics,
footnotes, bibliographic references, tables, figures, etc ready to be used for
whatever purpose. results were not encouraging. crocodoc gives u HTML5, clean
and reusable.

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Wei Zhao w.zhao@xxxxxxxxxxx
<jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any body had experience to convert PDF to JATS or BITS XML? Any
> suggestions for the conversion tools other than pdfx?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wei
>
> --
> Wei Zhao
> Metadata Librarian
> OCUL/Scholars Portal
> Phone: 416 946-0951
> Fax: 416 978-1668
> w.zhao@xxxxxxxxxxx
>



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