looking for a package?

[Sean McMahon]

Is xpdf a x-windows package?  also in response to another question about .doc 
files, antiword.
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From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: looking for a package?


> for pdf files there's xpdf's pdftotext.  just install xpdf and you
> should get it.  my only complaint is it pretty much murders any
> formatting in the pdf file.  I've found myself liking the feature in
> acrobat reader under windows to get better formatted text output.
> On
> Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:04:48PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> Does someone know of a pakcage that will allow me to convert pdf and .doc 
>> files to txt?
>> Also, html to txt conversions would be nice to.
>> Thanks,
>> ~~TheCreator~~
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>> http://tysplace.shaned.net
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>> st8amnd2005
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