ps conversion tools?

[Yvonne Smith]

Charles Hallenbeck writes:
 > Hi Greg
 > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
 > 
 > > Can it be used without configuring x?
 > > Greg
 > I found xpdf on my Slackware 8.0 system, but when I tried to use it on a
 > pdf file, here is what happened:
 > 
 > $ xpdf a-83.pdf
 > LTK Error: Cannot connect to X server
 > 
 > I have not configured X on my system, so I guess the answer to your
 > question is 'no'. Darn!

No, sorry. Use pdftotext <filename> don't directly run xpdf.