Conversion Tools: Portable Document Format - PDF
PDF2XL
allows you to extract table data from PDF documents and convert it to Excel. PDF2XL provides a step by
step interface that lets you find the table in the PDF document, select it and preview the data before converting. You can
modify the output if desired and then export the table to an Excel file, MS Word or copy it to the clipboard.
platform: MS-Windows
license: Shareware
pdftohtml
converts Portable Document Format files to HTML. This release
converts text and links. Bold and italic face are preserved, but high level
HTML structures (like lists or tables) are not yet generated. Images are
ignored in the current version (but you can extract them from the pdf file
using pdfimages, distributed with xpdf).
platform: Linux
license: GPL
Doc2pdf
is an email robot that converts Microsoft Office
attachments (.doc, .ppt and .xls) to PDF files. All you need do is
carbon-copy (CC) doc2pdf when you email a Microsoft Office document.
Doc2pdf converts the attachment to a PDF file and sends the PDF file, as
an attachment, in a reply to all recipients.
license: Artistic License
platform: Microsoft-Windows XX
Prospero
is an open source Internet Document Delivery (IDD)
system. It allows libraries to send and receive documents in electronic
format from Prospero or Ariel workstations. It also converts TIFF images
into Portable Document Files (PDF) and then places them on a Web site for
direct patron access.
platform: MS-Windows
license: GPL
An index.html maker from PDF, HTML, VRML and other files:
IndexMaker is a PERL script to make an index.html file from PDF files, HTML files, VRML files and other files. It can scan the files in a directory recursively.
platform: Linux (Perl)
SWFTools
is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This
includes a merging tool (swfcombine), a PDF to SWF converter (pdf2swf) and
library for writing and parsing SWFs (rfxswflib).
license: GPL
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