Saturday, September 1, 2007

PdfToHtml

I don't like paper, and I have the Windows Mobile device, and the device don't eat pdf's. The PDA likes djvu's more, but it has too small screen for presenting full pages.

Acrobat Reader on WM has "reflow" mode, but it don't works well with complex formatted documents (like code and formulae).

I've found the solution of "pdftohtml" utility. With cygwin it is possible to enclose this utility inside the perl scripts, to clear and reformat the resulting html pages in the way you like.

After 4 years using mobile devices, pdftohtml utility seems the best freeware solution for the data mobilizing.

IE on the Windows Mobile 5 devices is too slow, so I use AlReader program to read resulting text.

Other to mobilize solution is Repligo, but it is not free, and it is not in fact designed for the WM5 OS, and after the suspending, resuming of the device, it crashes.

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