Maybe off topic: Converting a file to texinfo ?

Maybe off topic: Converting a file to texinfo ?

[Martin Landers]

Hi,

I recently started programming for USRs pilot using gcc and emacs...
Now I'd like to create some kind of context-sensitive help for the palm
pilot API using emacs lisp. (If this works well I'd like to extend the
lisp code to some kind of general context-sensitive help (depending on
major mode).

Now the problem is that the API docs provided by USR are in Adobe
Acrobat 3.0 format. I'll have to convert that into texinfo / info format
in order to be used with the emacs info reader.

Does anyone of you know if there is a pdf -> texinfo / info format
converter out there ? (If no, maybe a WinHelp (*.hlp) -> texinfo
converter)

Please mail any answers to Martin.Landers@munich.netsurf.de as I'm not
reading this newsgroup frequently...

Thanks in advance,
Martin

P.S. Sorry if that question is too much off-topic (tell me where else to
ask it, if here is wrong)

Re: Maybe off topic: Converting a file to texinfo ?

[Mark Eichin]

There is "pdftotext" which is enough to get the text out in searchable
form, though it's not very usable or friendly; it's certainly a
starting point, but you'll have plenty of work to do from there...