Could We Convert Any PDF File Into An XML One?

[rsintheatre]

If the master pdf file carried a text other than English?Will the resulting text of the xml file be of any use, if one required carrying out some analysis based on specific words of that non-English language.(One hears fonts are not easily extractable in the recent pdf versions)

[Ben S]

XML is a meta-format, so there is no one 'correct' way to convert a PDF into XML. You'd first have to define an XML document schema, and then decide how the PDF was to be converted. So although technically it is possible, practically there is probably more work to be done. If all you need is the text, there are plenty of text extraction tools available for PDFs if you search the web. Then you can put that data into any XML format you want.