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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label recovertex</title>
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-<h3>Retrieving (La)TeX from DVI, etc.</h3>
-<p/>The job just can&#8217;t be done automatically: DVI, PostScript and
-PDF are &#8220;final&#8221; formats, supposedly not susceptible to
-further editing &#8212; information about where things came from has been
-discarded. So if you&#8217;ve lost your (La)TeX source (or never
-had the source of a document you need to work on) you&#8217;ve a serious job
-on your hands. In many circumstances, the best strategy is to retype
-the whole document, but this strategy is to be tempered by
-consideration of the size of the document and the potential typists&#8217;
-skills.
-<p/>If automatic assistance is necessary, it&#8217;s unlikely that any more than
-text retrieval is going to be possible; the (La)TeX markup that
-creates the typographic effects of the document needs to be recreated
-by editing.
-<p/>If the file you have is in DVI format, many of the techniques
-for <a href="FAQ-toascii.html">converting (La)TeX to ASCII</a> are
-applicable. Consider <i>dvi2tty</i>, <i>crudetype</i> and
-<i>catdvi</i>. Remember that there are likely to be problems
-finding included material (such as included PostScript figures, that
-don&#8217;t appear in the DVI file itself), and mathematics is
-unlikely to convert easily.
-<p/>To retrieve text from PostScript files, the
-<i>ps2ascii</i> tool (part of the <i>ghostscript</i>
-distribution) is available. One could try applying this tool to
-PostScript derived from an PDF file using <i>pdf2ps</i> (also
-from the <i>ghostscript</i> distribution), or <i>Acrobat</i>
-<i>Reader</i> itself; an alternative is <i>pdftotext</i>,
-which is distributed with <i>xpdf</i>.
-<p/>Another avenue available to those with a PDF file they want to
-process is offered by Adobe <i>Acrobat</i> (version 5 or later):
-you can tag the PDF file into an estructured document, output
-thence to well-formed XHTML, and import the results into
-Microsoft <i>Word</i> (2000 or later). From there, one may
-convert to (La)TeX using one of the techniques discussed in
-
-&#8220;<a href="FAQ-fmtconv.html">converting to and from (La)TeX</a>&#8221;.
-<p/>The result will typically (at best) be poorly marked-up. Problems may
-also arise from the oddity of typical TeX font encodings (notably
-those of the maths fonts), which <i>Acrobat</i> doesn&#8217;t know how
-to map to its standard Unicode representation.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>catdvi</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/catdvi.zip">dviware/catdvi</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/catdvi/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/catdvi.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>crudetype</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/crudetype.zip">dviware/crudetype</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/crudetype/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/crudetype.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>dvi2tty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvi2tty.zip">dviware/dvi2tty</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvi2tty/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dvi2tty.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ghostscript/GPL">support/ghostscript/GPL</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/ghostscript-GPL.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>xpdf</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/xpdf">support/xpdf</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/xpdf.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p><em>This answer last edited: 2009-05-29</em></p>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=recovertex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=recovertex</a>
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