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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]