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pdf/txt conversion



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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:29:43 UT
"dan moylan" <jdm at moylan.info> 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.
> 
> the text information is there, since the find utility
> in xpdf can find text strings in the document.
> however, i've looked and found no utility such as the
> one i need.
> 
> any suggestions would be appreciated.
In addition, koffice also reads PDF files and allows modification.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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