Well, the correct answer to almost any such technical question is "yes and no". This one comes as close as any to a bare "no".
It's a good question. PDF->SVG conversions are quite powerful--when they work. They simply do NOT work, in the general case. I deal with a hundred-thousand PDFs at a time, and they demonstrably don't behave with enough regularity to allow for the kind of general transformation I suspect you have in mind.
Well, the correct answer to almost any such technical question is "yes and no". This one comes as close as any to a bare "no".
It's a good question. PDF->SVG conversions are quite powerful--when they work. They simply do NOT work, in the general case. I deal with a hundred-thousand PDFs at a time, and they demonstrably don't behave with enough regularity to allow for the kind of general transformation I suspect you have in mind.
As it happens, our little company does quite a bit of business extracting content from specific classes of PDFs http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF_content_extracti... Coincidentally, I also research and deliver advanced SVG effects http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.xml/SVG_examples.html I certainly am sympathetic to your aim. To be successful, you need to specify your situation more precisely.