gnu/linux pdf reader, was: Re: new OCR project for Linux!

[Michael Whapples]

There's also things like pdftohtml, pdftotext, pstotext, and I am sure 
there are some others. Most distros either come with these tools 
installed by default or have them in their package repositories. All of 
these can be used from the command line.

Michael Whapples
On 23/12/42 19:59, Marcel Oats wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Thank you 
> for that.
> Marcel
> At 05:56 p.m. 3/04/2009, you wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 05:32:45PM +1300, Marcel Oats wrote:
>> > I'd like a PDF converter for Linux.  Any ideas?
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>> Yes, there's the xpdf package which will render a pdf as a text file,
>> and there's Adobe's acrobat reader, which is said to work with orca in
>> gnome, though I haven't tried it yet. There are probably even more
>> such tools under gnu/linux which I'm not even aware of.
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>> Greg
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