Re: text mode pdf and msword reader?

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > hello all
> > 
> > from a gui die-hard, i have started using console extensively. mutt, vim
> > and all :) much faster - i must say.
> > 
> > off and on, i get mail having pdf files and word documents as
> > attachments. i have to run x and use xpdf and abiword for these.
> > 
> > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word
> > documents in console?
> 
> Dunno about pdf, but package 'catdoc' should help with word documents.
>  

pstotext will handle much pdf stuff.