Looking for text to HTML Conversion Software

[Jian Liu]

Do those documents have some structural features that can be
identified? If so, you can ask someone to write some simple
perl scripts to insert html codes into them.

One example I have here, our Lilly Library manuscript collection
description consists of more than 2,000 small files, in ASCII, like
the following:

                         ADAMS MSS.

   The Adams mss., 1912-1981, are the letters, photographs,
and writings by and about Booth Tarkington, 1869-1946, author
of Indianapolis and Kennebunkport, Maine, collected by Reily
Gibson Adams, 1911-    , corporation official of Indianapolis
whose wife was a relative of Tarkington.
   Biographical materials include clippings and printed
matter about Tarkington, beginning with a copy of his
marriage certificate in 1912 and concluding with a notice of
the observance of his 112th birthday.  Among the undated
items are some of his bookplates.
   Collection size:  97 items
   For more information about this collection and any related
materials contact the Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library,
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN  47405 -- Telephone:
(812) 855-2452.

A small perl script can insert the basic html codes, grab the title
and insert <p> at the beginning of each paragraph, and text is
ready for the web. I then use Isearch to index it and use htmltoc, 
a small perl program that I got from the net long time ago, to 
create the browsing section. See:
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/Iforms/mss.html

Jian
Indiana University Libraries

> 
> Hello
> I am looking for a super  product that
> would be able to take a text document and
> covert it into HTML. We are about to convert
> 7000+ documents from the mainframe to the Web
>  and realize Front Page and Word 97 would be too slow. 
> Can anyone recommend a product that would do this efficiently
> and with accuracy? Thanks for any recommendations!
> 
> Libby Whitcomb
> Corporate Services-Information Technology Team
> libby at ti.com
> 972-997-5277
> 
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