[plug] PDF to TXT

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Thu Aug 3 12:00:39 WST 2000


On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:46:32AM +0800, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:
 
> Anyone recommend a good (cheap --> free, its a one off use) PDF to TXT
> ripper. The ones I have found so far on freshmeat either mean I send the
> PDF to them or I pay US $ 500 ... (ouch)

diffie:~$ man pdftotext

pdftotext(1)                                         pdftotext(1)

NAME
       pdftotext   -  Portable  Document  Format  (PDF)  to  text
       converter (version 0.90)

Part of the xpdf(-i) package under Debian and probably most other
distributions.

Regards,

Christian.




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