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pdf/txt conversion



On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, dan moylan wrote:

> does anyone know of a utility to extract text from a .pdf
> file?  this would be much as open-office extracts text
> from a .doc file.  and that's a very useful thing too.

Since pdf2text has already been named & found suitable, you may also find
antiword interesting -- it's basically a command line doc2text tool, which
saves you the trouble of firing up a full blown word processor just to
scan the contents of a .doc file.

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