README

pdftoxml
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version 1.0.0
July 2007

The Xpdf software and documentation are
copyright 1996-2007 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

Email: derekn@foolabs.com
WWW: http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

The PDF data structures, operators, and specification are
copyright 1985-2006 Adobe Systems Inc.

The libxml2 software and documentation are released under the MIT License.
See the Copyright file in the distribution for the precise wording.

What is pdftoxml?
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pdftoxml is an open source PDF to XML convertor.
pdftoxml runs under Linux and on Win32 systems.

pdftoxml is based on xpdf and is essentially a (large) modification
of pdftotext in order to generate XML instead of plain text.
The XML generation uses the libxml2 library


Distribution
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pdftoxml is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2.


Compatibility
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pdftoxml is developed and tested on a Linux 2.4 x86 system.
In addition, it has been compiled on a Win32 system.

Getting pdftoxml
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The latest version is available from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf2xml
Source code is available from: http://pdf2xml.cvs.sourceforge.net/pdf2xml/


Running pdftoxml
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To run pdftoxml, simply type:

  pdftoxml.exe file.pdf

Command line options and many other details are(should be) described in sourceforge


Compiling pdftoxml
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See the separate file, INSTALL.


Contributors
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Hervé Déjean   (src)
Sophie Andrieu (src)
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury (schemas)