Recover PDF to LaTeX [closed]

Answer 1

It is possible to convert your PDF to HTML and your HTML to TEX using pdftohtml and gnuhtml2latex.

In effect, you are doing PDF to LaTeX conversion in 2 steps. The result still is like "making a cow out of a hamburger", but in combination with some cleanup scripts the result can be pretty decent.

The blog post "Rudimentary PDF to LaTeX conversion in Linux" on GlobalBlindSpot has an example Bash script that converts a .pdf to a .tex file and that one to a .pdf file again.

Answer 2

It may work with texmacs, which includes an import of pdf files.

Answer 3

It's only possible if you embed the source of the document into the PDF file. See the attachfile package for doing this.