[ubuntu-us-nc] PDF conversion

[J Mark Cox]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:42 -0400, Jeff Lane wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 04:51 -0400, Elijah Smith wrote:
> >         
> >         > Is anyone familiar with any utility that will convert .pdf
> >         text to a word
> 
> Instead of all these fancy pointy-clickey ways, try on one of the tools
> from poppler-utils (should be installed by default in 10.04, or at least
> I don't remember ever installing them).
> 
> For example:
> 
> pdftotext - converts pdf files to text files
> pdftohtml - converts pdf files to HTML files
> pdftops - converts pdf to PostScript
> pdftoabw - converts pdf to AbiWord format
> 
> http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
> 
> And it's all shell, so you can script it to run against all the PDFs you
> have...
> 
> 
Awesome! Now I have to go edit those tax form pdf files I have been
wanting  to "slightly" modify. Oh my, coffee...

Make checks payable to:
Send checks to: 

Just kidding, but looks like some intriguing possibilities none the
less.

-mark