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Re: pdf to text



on Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:50:19PM +0200, Diego Martínez Castañeda (dmartinez@keekorok.com) wrote:
> > if you've installed xpdf-utils, use pdftptext.
> 
> the correct name is pdftotext. sorry.

Right.  Works only for a subset of PDF docs, as well, with results all
over the map, from excellent (for some US Supreme Court decisions I
rendered to text) to not at all (for scanned-in FAX TIFFs).


Peace.

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