pdf/txt conversion
ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
Thu Oct 2 12:30:22 EDT 2003
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 10:49:28PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> 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.
>
> <http://www.winfield.demon.nl/>
I use wv, which is similar. I haven't tried antiword, so I can't
compare.
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
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