pdf files

[Garry Turkington]

... or if you want a command line tool try pdftotext from the xpdf-utils 
package.  Even works with encrypted password-protected PDF files which 
came as a pleasant surprise to me over the weekend.

Regards,
Garry

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Garry Turkington
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Beth Koenig wrote:

> Open the pdf and use ctrl + a and then ctrl + c then open gedit and
> paste. You can read the document quite well in gedit.  That assumes
> that the person that made the pdf didn't use image based text. But
> most people use text text so it is accessible.
>
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> On 6/17/07, mike coulombe <kb8aey at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Hi, is there a program to convert a pdf file to a text file so it can be red using orca.
>> Mike.
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