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I have yet to find a program that will take a PDF and convert it to anything useful. All the programs I've tried either give me plain text with line breaks for each line, or try to recreate the exact layout of the original PDF by using text boxes, tables, and other ridiculous amounts of formatting.
Even the HTML output from these programs suck. Either the HTML has tons of embedded font tags, or they generate extremely complex CSS in an attempt to duplicate the layout of the PDF. Yes, I can use HTML Tidy to clean some of this, but I still have to spend hours cleaning up the rest of the mess. I have done this often enough that I am tired of it. I refuse to waste any more time on converting PDF files.
All I want is simple HTML output with bold, italic, headers and such. If I need anything fancier, I can add a simple sytle sheet myself.
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