Hi all,
I was wondering if it is possible to batch convert pdf to svg with an out put that renders the text as paths, but contains the text as metadata in the svg file so you can search on that for words, thus easily finding the right documents. Or eventually making output of the same file in a path rendered version and a text containing one(though that is sub optimal). I remember having read something about adding the text as meta data into the SVG output, so I was wondering what the status of that is.
If so, is there a way to do this without the gui? Or at least without starting the whole app for every pdf to be converted? I have several hundreds to convert, so that would be nice. The tool pdf2svg does a great job of converting pdf to SVG, but only to path, which sort of defeats the purpose of conversion in the first place. I have to index the pdf text into a database and then insert that data into the SVG file as metadata. Possible, but a bit of a lot of work for a one time event.
Cheers,
Jelle