Re: [OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

> I might be making a fool of myself by asking this,
> but is there any way of extracting information such
> as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone
> knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other
> things than view them, and occasionally print them,
> using xpdf, but now I need to cut and paste a piece
> of text and a couple of pictures from as PDF file.

i often use pdftotext, it works great (xpdf package).
pdftopbm should help you with images, but i never tried it.

hope it helps.

pietro.