Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates
This paper describes a tool for recombining the logical structure from an XML document with the typeset appearance of the corresponding PDF document. The tool uses the XML representation as a template for the insertion of the logical structure into the existing PDF document, thereby creating a Struc...
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| author | Hardy, Matthew Brailsford, David F. Thomas, Peter |
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| description | This paper describes a tool for recombining the logical structure from an XML document with the typeset appearance of the corresponding PDF document. The tool uses the XML representation as a template for the insertion of the logical structure into the existing PDF document, thereby creating a Structured/Tagged PDF. The addition of logical structure adds value to the PDF in three ways: the accessibility is improved (PDF screen readers for visually impaired users perform better), media options are enhanced (the ability to reflow PDF documents, using structure as a guide, makes PDF viable for use on hand-held devices) and the re-usability of the PDF documents benefits greatly from the presence of an XML-like structure tree to guide the process of text retrieval in reading order (e.g. when interfacing to XML applications and databases). |
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| spelling | nottingham-1902020-05-04T20:31:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/190/ Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates Hardy, Matthew Brailsford, David F. Thomas, Peter This paper describes a tool for recombining the logical structure from an XML document with the typeset appearance of the corresponding PDF document. The tool uses the XML representation as a template for the insertion of the logical structure into the existing PDF document, thereby creating a Structured/Tagged PDF. The addition of logical structure adds value to the PDF in three ways: the accessibility is improved (PDF screen readers for visually impaired users perform better), media options are enhanced (the ability to reflow PDF documents, using structure as a guide, makes PDF viable for use on hand-held devices) and the re-usability of the PDF documents benefits greatly from the presence of an XML-like structure tree to guide the process of text retrieval in reading order (e.g. when interfacing to XML applications and databases). ACM Press Vion-Dury, Jean-Yves 2004-10 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Hardy, Matthew, Brailsford, David F. and Thomas, Peter (2004) Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates. In: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng2004), 27-31 October 2004, Milwaukee, USA. XML PDF Logical Structure Insertion. |
| spellingShingle | XML Logical Structure Insertion. Hardy, Matthew Brailsford, David F. Thomas, Peter Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates |
| title | Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates |
| title_full | Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates |
| title_fullStr | Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates |
| title_short | Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates |
| title_sort | creating structured pdf files using xml templates |
| topic | XML Logical Structure Insertion. |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/190/ |