Free Book About PHP Available

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Sat Mar 2 11:59:50 EST 2002


Why not just use pdftotext which is an interface to xpdf I believe?
Greg


On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:31:50AM -0500, 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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