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[Charles Hallenbeck]

Brian -
Thanks for that tip! On my Slackware system the xpdf software is
installed, but the command to do the conversion seems to be
"pdftotext". It worked just fine.

Chuck


On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Brian Borowski wrote:

> There are no problems in converting this book.  Here's an easy recipe.
>
> *  Assume you are running that most superb distribution of linux known as
> debian; there's been a couple of nasty things said about debian recently by
> a couple of people on here...
>
> * and you don't have xpdf installed, then do:
> apt-get install xpdf
>
> * then:
> xpdf 1893115852_xx.pdf
> for each chapter.
>
> * You will end up with  .txt files which are quite readable; though, they
> have a little bit of leading space at the start of the lines, but
> then:
>
> you could strip these with a one-line perl script like
>
> perl -pe 's/^\s+//;' input-file >output-file
>
> or something like that...
>
> Brian Borowski
>
>
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>
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