Document Format Conversion

html2ps
HTML to PostScript converter written in Perl by Jan Kärrman.

HTMLDOC
"Converts HTML files to PDF or PostScript ..."

pdflatex: Converting TEX to PDF

Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview
"Interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, and related software and documentation."

doclifter
"The doclifter program translates documents written in troff macros to DocBook." By Eric S. Raymond.

texi2html
"Texi2html is a Perl script that converts Texinfo to HTML. It was originally developed by Lionel Cons and later maintained by Karl Berry..."

DocBookDoclet
"The DocBookDoclet creates DocBook code from Java source documentation. It is helpful if you want to print reference handbooks of your API." By Michael Fuchs.

Dvipdfm
Dvipdfm is a DVI to PDF translator by Mark A. Wicks.

TeX2page
"TeX2page is a Scheme program that makes Web pages from TeX documents." By Dorai Sitaram.

MajiX
Transform RTF files (Microsoft Word files) to XML.

enscript
"Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF or Pretty-Print". Debian package, we have not found the home page.

Some 2 XML
"The idea of Some2XML was to produce a well-formed XML documents out of text files that already have some structure, even their original structure is not too much XML-alike ... The project is no longer supported."

Unix to Dos to Unix Utility
unix2dos (Changes UNIX LF to DOS CR/LF) and dos2unix (Changes DOS CR/LF to UNIX LF).

Formatting Objects Processor (FOP)
"FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects and the world's first output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported are PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF."

XML Lightweight Extractor (XLE)
"XLE reads relational data from various relational tables that are not stored in XML format and assembles the retrieved data items into XML documents. For a given Document Type Definition (DTD) and a set of relational tables, a mapping file, called a DTD with Source Annotation (DTDSA) file, can be created by inserting relevant mapping information into the original DTD file. During run time XLE uses the mapping file and a set of arguments to retrieve data and create XML documents."

JEDI: Java Extraction and Dissemination of Information
"The WWW has evolved into a general purpose information space that consists not only of hyperlinked documents, but also of queryable information sources delivering semi-structured responses ... Such sources often contain overlapping or complementary information expressed with different syntax and semantics. JEDI provides tools to reuse this information in an individual context, and to combine and reconcile information from multiple sources."

xmlLinguist
"xmlLinguist offers a quick and simple way to get flat, text files into XML format, and visa-versa. Once in XML format, all XML-based processes can easily be applied to the document to do whatever else might be needed on the message, such as validating through an XML schema, applying a Stylesheet to transform the structure of the data, or display it in HTML, etc." Commercial product.

Additional resources:

RTF on the server: Automate document handling with low-cost server processes
Cameron Laird, IBM developerWorks, December 2002.

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