I have a paper copy of some old LaTeX notes, but I lost the source file.  If I scanned them as a .pdf, does any OCR software exist that could convert the scanned .pdf to LaTeX source (.tex)?  I also have a paper copy of some old notes created using Microsoft Word's Equation Editor.  While I am considerably less hopeful, I ask the same question -- does an OCR software exist that could convert a scanned .pdf to .tex?  Thank you for your help.
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I know that hardly any information is passed to the PDF when a .tex file is compiled.  But is there a tool that can convert a PDF document back to (La)TeX?
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I found a beautiful example of a powerful quiz that was created using LaTeX:   This example uses JavaScript inside a PDF document. Unfortunately, there is no source available. Does anyone know where I can find it?  P.S. Maybe there are similar packages you can advise?
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I'm writing here following  and .  1. My main goal is just to use MathType in Word and to edit with Word. Therefore, what is the best way to convert an Adobe PDF containing math (equations, symbols, tables, etc.) into a Word document?  2. Is there another way to make the PDF appear in Word? I was thinking that maybe the PDF doesn't need to be converted. Instead, each page of the PDF could be convertered/terated as a picture which could then be pasted onto a Word document. This process takes too long to do for each page. What program or recourse is available? Thank you very much!  Unfortunately, it would take too much time for me to retype the PDF, because it is essentially a free textbook containing maths on which I must annotate. Also, I do not have the LaTeX source file for the PDF, only the PDF itself.  I've spent at least 3 hours trying to research and resolve this question, including reading  and  .  I've tried the following PDF to Word converters, but ALL of them deform, disfigure, and distort the math, the fonts, and the formatting: Zamzar.com, Wondershare PDF to Word Converter 4.0.1, Able2Doc PDF to Word Converter v7.0.34, and UniPDF.
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I really want to convince my friends and family that LaTeX is the choice for them when it comes to formatting and creating beautiful documents. I am aware of the major advantages that come with using LaTeX but some are not convinced. Can someone please provide a side by side comparison of a Word document (or something of the sort) and a LaTeX document that shows the obvious and subtle differences between the two? I want people to look at it and say "Ahhh, I see it, there's a major difference".
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I have a form as a PDF file.  I would like to use LaTeX/TeX to overlay my text over the form, and send the output to either a print or another PDF file.  Is this possible?  How would I go about it?
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I'm working with a colleague who uses LyX (I use LaTeX), and we have a hard time exchanging documents because of conversion issues. Is there any easy way to convert LyX to LaTeX and vice versa?
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I recently (2 days back) started using LaTeX, I use Sublime Text 2 (ST2) for most of the programming. I found that ST2 has LaTeX package. So what I am doing is write the document with ST2 and run it with TeXWorks to see any errors/debugging. Is there a way I can run/debug the tex file directly from ST2? Is there any better practice than what I am doing currently?
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Is there a list of open source LaTeX books? I've only found  (the link points to a web archive), but I want to know if there is a list with more diversity as this has only mathematical books. I want to find open source books about physics, chemistry, electronics...  My aim is to use these as a source of inspiration.  For example if I wanted to do a digital circuit I would like to take a look at a book written with LaTeX about electronics just to see how other people do it. Here for example is a physics book with the source available  .  In this book I've seen that putting images in the chapter entry looks nice.
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I need to copy a table from a pdf file to my LaTeX document. I know I have to do it by hand but still don't understand how to create a table with LaTeX.
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I understand, that similar questions were already asked here, and I have tried some of suggested solutions (latex2rtf, converting output pdf to doc with different convertors), but didn't find one that works for me.     What are my circumstances: I work on Windows 8.1, in TexStudio, using TexLive. I use xelatex, because I need Times New Roman Cyrillic in output pdf. My text are mostly in Russian and English, don't contain equations, but contain illustrations and text fragments in Oldchurchslavonic and Greek. I use biblatex and biber for building bibliography.   Often I need to send documents in .doc format, because many journals in my knowledge area don't accept articles in .tex or .pdf. So LaTeX fits perfectly in my workflow except of the final stage.   I tried to use latex2rtf, but run into some encoding problems. What I did finally was converting pdf to doc with trial verstion of Nitro PDF and then spending about two hours cleaning the file from double spaces, hyphens turned into dashes, unexpected line breaks etc. It was definitely not the best solutoin, but I don't have time to search a different one.   Is there any solution for converting latex to .doc or .rtf that will work under described circumstances OR a pdf to doc converter that produces editable .doc?
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I have a source file called 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex and I'd like to create a PDF file from it called only Myfilename.pdf.  Can this be configured from within the .tex file itself?  (It seems to be possible with    pdflatex -jobname=Myfilename.tex 2011-05-27_Myfilename.tex   However, as many different files are concerned, It would be easier to have an option like output=Myfilename in the LaTeX source code.)
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A lot of people write makefiles that say something like  paper.pdf: paper.tex         pdflatex paper         bibtex paper         pdflatex paper         pdflatex paper   To handle re-running TeX to get new/changed references and so forth. Is there a better way to do this?
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I'm currently a presentation based on a paper originally written in Latex. Currently, I use Kile and Ubuntu for my work.  What I'm finding is that I need a large number of the equations from the original paper scattered around the presentations (and are using them to annotate diagrams etc).  My current method of screenshots + gimp is rather slow :)  So, what I would like to do is compile the tex document and instead of creating a pdf/dvi, I would like it to spit out a number of files, which each file being one of the equations from the document, preferably in a vector format, but I will live with a PNG if I have to, so long as it's of high enough resolution.  I've had a look at a number of utilities.   The following web utility:  does more or less what I want for an individually typed equation. However, I've used a lot of mactros in equations that make it a little messy to use (for example)  \newcommand{\SkewSymmetric}[1]{\ensuremath{ \left[ #1 \right]_{\times}}}   I've had a look at pdf2svg, but it doesn't quite do what I want - I still need to crop out the equation of interest.  Is there anything else I should look at?
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I'm interested in writing packages for TeX/LaTeX/XeLaTeX. I googled around, but all I found was guides or tutorials about how to prepare documents using LaTeX. I want to know how LaTeX works and how to change it or add new things to it.   Which book/guide/tutorial is the most useful source to learn LaTeX programming? Is there official documentations around LaTeX development? (I couldn't find development SCM on official site. is source code private?)
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I would like to write a .pdf, where my readers could copy the rendered formulae and paste them directly in their TeX documents.    And the copied text would automatically be:  \int x\sin ax\;\mathrm{d}x = \frac{\sin ax}{a^2}-\frac{x\cos ax}{a}+C   Is this possible?
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Is there a tool for exporting equation images to TeX? Probably something related to OCR. I have a lot of image-equations in a word document that I'd like to convert to TeX.  Note that the equations are actually images, so no word2tex-like apps would help.
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I need PDF files to text so I can search over them in bulk from commandline. Is there some converter for Ubuntu, OBSD or similar distro?  Perhaps related post, OCR with ubuntu .