I have a big pdf with the documentation for a project and I need to render this to doxygen (so take each function from the pdf and write it out into doxygen). Any suggestions on how to do this quickly and effectively (other than doing it by hand)?
PDF to doxygen - how to do it?
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First, you will need some kind of OCR software to transform your PDF into some kind of machine readable ASCII text. Second, since doxygen is a tool for creating docs from annotated source code, I assume you have that source code and your PDF docs refers to functions and classes in that source code. You will have to check if your ASCII-converted PDF text can be assigned uniquely and automatically to annotations of your source code. Since you did not post even the slightest example of how your docs and your source code look like, the only suggestion I can give you is to write a program for that task. The program should read the source code and the ASCII text and write the source code with doxygen compatible annotations. I would not expect to find an existing tool for that part.