get latex code out of a PDF file

Question

i have this CV in PDF format which is written in LaTeX. is there a way to 'reverse engineer' the PDF so that i can get the latex code out of it?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1620002/pdf-to-latex-linux

Answer 3

No

An explanation can be found here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=recovertex

Answer 4

The Latex file will have been printed to PDF, converting the contents into Postcript commands.