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I have a CV in PDF format which is to be converted to LaTeX code. Is there a way to 'reverse engineer' the PDF so that I can get the latex code?
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You can also just open the PDF in a text viewer, e.g. Notepad++, and then search for latex . You will see something like /Author()/Title()/Subject()/Creator(LaTeX with hyperref)/Producer(pdfTeX-1.40. 19)/Keywords() .
Just like you can automatically reverse engineer C code (though not very readable and with certain limitations) from a compiled exe you should be able to reverse engineer the LaTeX code from a compiled PDF. There just don't seem to be any tools around that even attempt this. This would sure be an interesting thing to implement.
There's some research going on in that area: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2011-baker-sexton-sorge.pdf
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Short answer: No
Slightly longer answer:
You may get the plain text back but you can't restore the original latex source.
You may be able to import PDF into a word processor and export LaTeX from it (Either AbiWord of KOffice can do that, if I remember correctly), but the result will not be pretty. This won't get you the original LaTeX, but a very poor approximation. I think recreating the CV from scratch in LaTeX will be easier.
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