pdf files

Adam Myrow amyrow at midsouth.rr.com
Tue Apr 1 19:56:45 EST 2003


The utility is called pdftotext and is part of the xpdf application.  It
works from the command-line even though xpdf is graphical.  The syntax is
"pdftotext file.pdf" and you get file.txt.  Often, it works out better if
you type "pdftotext -raw file.pdf."  This often will make more readable
output.  It's still pretty messy, but it's better than nothing.





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