Book resource from PDF

Re: Book resource from PDF

by Tom Worthington -
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John Andrewartha wrote Thursday, 11 March 2010, 10:22 AM:

>The trick I use is to export the books as IMS objects, it's basically html. ...

I can't see how that would help import to Moodle books from PDF.

If you have the book as an IMS object, you can un-Zip the file and extract the HTML and CSS files. If the IMS file was created by Moodle or a simialr LMS and the author structured the content logically, you will see a neat set of web pages.

But if you try examining the contents of a typical PDF file you will find a mess of text intermixed with low level formatting.

See my discussion of file formats.