[TriLUG] PDF to text

[Ian Kilgore]

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Owen Berry wrote:
| Anyone know of a command line utility for extracting text from a pdf
| file, other than the one included in xpdf (pdftotext)? pdftotext does
| exactly what I want, but I would like to avoid pulling in the rest of
| xpdf, if possible, as this is for a server.
|
| BTW, I'm using it combined with the perlfect search engine, so the text
| does not need to be formatted nicely or anything.
|
| Thanks,
| Owen
|
You can pipe pdf2ps | ps2ascii
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