Text insertion to HTML, any good tools, tips?

Question

I've got this text insertion from doc to HTML work.
It is important not to make mistakes, cause it is a law document and its voluminous.

I wonder how do you guys who have experience with this do it?
Can You suggest any good text comparison tools (to compare the original and the inserted for mistakes) or maybe even insertion tools?

Answer 1

As soon as you receive the file then save it to the server as a text file. Do not use copy and paste to select the text and copy it into an HTML file.

Now you need some server side processing to include the document into the html.

That is the safest way to do what you want.



Because this is a text document you will lose paragraph and line spacing so perhaps your server side processing can fix this by inserting P or BR tags.

Without knowing more about your setup I cannot help any more than that.

Server side processing is ASP, PHP, CGI, Perl or JSP to name a few.



Have fun.

Answer 2

If you have done a spell check and have prrof read for grammar mistakes, then any copy/paste operation into an HTML file will only cause lost of text formatting which you don't need anyway as you will use CSS to set the text presentation of your document.



If you want to retain some semplance of your original document, you could save it as a PDF and put that online and allow Viewers to use the free Adobe Reader to read the file. If it has to be downloaded from online, then you need to zip it so it triggers the browser's download function.



There are programs called file comparers that compare one file to another. Example: http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp



If you need to convert your present document to pdf and the program you are using does not allow saving as PDF format, then maybe one of these:



File Converters:



Free online file converter: http://www.cometdocs.com/

http://www.freefileconvert.com/

http://www.coolutils.com/Online-HTML-Converter.php

http://www.zamzar.com/

40 Options for Converting PSD to HTML: http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/psd-to-html-services/



Ron

Answer 3

Yes, save as a text file but it need not be on a server at this point. Then with Notepad, open the txt file. Possible that it will be too big for Notepad. Download and install the free EditPad from http://www.editpadlite.com/ As mentioned, all the formating for paragraphs and other text enhancements will be wiped out when you save as a text file. Visit http://www.w3schools.com/ to learn elemental HTML coding and use of the HTML tags.



The first 7 lines of the following should be placed at the beginning and the last 2 lines at the end of your text file. Once complete, "save as" a text file with an extension of html. Open with any browser program.





























There will be no need to compare with the original as long as you do not make changes to the original content other than adding the appropriate tags.