Re: How to extract text from PDF?

[Andrius <pantor@painter-decorator.eu>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 03/08/08 18:22, Andrius wrote:
> > Andrius wrote:
> > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:55:13PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> > > > > Andrius wrote on 2008-03-06 00:20:
> > > > > > technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From
> > > > > > PDF to
> > > > > > txt.
> > > > > There have already been some useful suggestions.
> > > > >
> > > > > One more: on kpdf, the right mouse button selects a rectangle whose
> > > > > contents can be copied to the clipboard. Useful for pasting small parts
> > > > > of text to other applications. For full pages/documents try pdftotext.
> > > > Likewise xpdf and evince. Or the command-line pdftotext . They all use
> > > > the same basic PDF library (xpdf / popller), so they'll probably handle
> > > > PDFs rather similarly.
> > > Thank you! pdftotext it is a brilliant option.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Andrius
> > One more question. How to megre several pdf files to one file using
> > command mode please?
>
> The Debian Developers have thoughtfully created many tools for
> searching thru the repository descriptions for packages that might
> be useful.
>
> We all *strongly* urge that you avail yourself of said tools.
>
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
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Next time don't worry to answer keeping in mind that your "strong" 
advice always in my head.

Regards,

Andrius