DocumentCode
2733891
Title
PDF to HTML Conversion: Having a Usable Web Document
Author
Bhatti, M. Afzal ; Ahmad, Adeel
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Quaid-i-Azam Univ., Islamabad
fYear
2006
fDate
6-6 Dec. 2006
Firstpage
289
Lastpage
293
Abstract
In most of the digital libraries and Websites the artifacts are available in portable document format (PDF). Most of the users read online these PDF documents in their daily activities and face problems while reading multi column PDF documents. This paper describes the design of a PDF to HTML converter to ease the online reading activity by providing a usable Web document. PDF to HTML converter, is designed to enhance usability of PDF documents. Our converter presents the document content in a more usable way by following Web usability guidelines. It reduces time and effort required to read PDF documents online.
Keywords
Internet; digital libraries; hypermedia markup languages; PDF to HTML conversion; Web sites; digital libraries; portable document format conversion; usable Web document; Application software; Cascading style sheets; Computer science; Displays; Graphical user interfaces; Guidelines; HTML; Size control; Software libraries; Usability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Digital Information Management, 2006 1st International Conference on
Conference_Location
Bangalore
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0682-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICDIM.2007.369212
Filename
4221904
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