Is there anything happening to make PDF to XML conversion easier in the future?
In Acrobat 5, Adobe introduced a concept called ‘tagged PDF’, which allows a software tool to add to its PDF Writer some level of structure information to the PDF document, so that it contains more than just page layout information. The latest version of Microsoft Word has some support for this, and other tools have promised support for ‘tagged PDF’. Adobe, itself, would like to see this information added to as many software packages as possible, so that PDF documents can be more easily re-flowed to fit the smaller screens of PDA’s, mobile phones, and other portable devices. So, I guess the good news is that as the support for a more structured PDF format grows, the task of converting PDF to XML will become easier.
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