• 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