First development of a tool to convert PDF of scientific articles into EPUB file (to read them on a eReader) based on a fork of PDFminer. ########################################## # THIS PROGRAM IS NOT COMPLET FOR NOW =) # # Early stage development # ########################################## First accomplishments: ---------------------- - Detection of scientific articles layout (complex 2 columns) - Remove header and footer - First conversion to xhtml files with metadata Current development: -------------------- - Extracting text from the layout - LaTeX formula detection and recomposition Future development: ------------------- - Add PDF internal/external links - Table of Contents detection - PDF annotations - Create mimetype/container.xml/content.opf/toc.ncx files and zip them to .epub file