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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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?
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.