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

Marcel Oats moats at orcon.net.nz
Sat Apr 4 15:19:37 EDT 2009


That's great, thanks.
I'll look for it in the distro.
Marcel

At 04:26 a.m. 4/04/2009, you wrote:
>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?
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Greg
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