how to turn a DVI to tex?
dvi-tex, latex
Solution
This is similar to the problem of turning PDF into XML which is referred to as "trying to turn a hamburger back into a cow". Both TeX->DVI and XML->PDF lose information, both in the structure of the document and its semantics.
It requires a great deal of heuristics and a large corpus to recreate (some of) the original document. It is never usually 100%. The text strings may be possible, the vectors are harder. Bitmaps are almost impossible.
Problem
Any idea how to take DVI files and turn them into tex?