The following is a self-archived copy of a previous reply I sent to an EU consultation on facilitating digitization (january 2006):
I have 3 suggestions on facilitating digitization of copyrighted material:
(Publicly funded copyright clause)
Any copyrighted material that has been produced using public money
(directly from a government or indirectly through an agency
administering a budget given by [...]

This version managed to convert a couple of hundreds of sample articles from the arxiv-math.
Because those sources vary widely in terms of metadata quality (author, date…etc. records), some of the converted articles look a bit messy. That’s the next Hermes version’s job: to get a bit wiser in terms of recovering the metadata, and in [...]

This version managed to convert 160 out of the first 254 from a month of arxiv/math articles, a ratio of 0.63.
The articles drawing diagrams or pictures (e.g. using the xy package or similar) were not convertible by this version of Hermes, and I don’t plan on adding support for them anytime soon.
The rest is fixable [...]