<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> Dewey, Yep they are indeed part of the default install of Lurid Lynx. Thor On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 10:33 -0500, Dewey Hylton wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Lane" <<A HREF="mailto:jeffrey.lane@canonical.com">jeffrey.lane@canonical.com</A>> To: "Ubuntu North Carolina Local Community Team" <<A HREF="mailto:ubuntu-us-nc@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-us-nc@lists.ubuntu.com</A>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:06:36 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-nc] PDF conversion On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 00:05 -0400, J Mark Cox wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:42 -0400, Jeff Lane wrote: > > 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 > > > > <A HREF="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/">http://poppler.freedesktop.org/</A> > > > > 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. Yeah, they are neat little tools. I've had them for a while and use them on occasion, but I don't know if they're part of the default Lucid install or not. I always thought they were part of Xpdf, until the other day, to be honest :) I never installed poppler myself, so I am left to guess that it was either a default package, or was a dependency of something else I installed. In any case, they work pretty well, though not always. Apparently there are some PDFs that have mangled data or werid fonts or characters that don't always get converted properly, so it's still a good idea to actually look over the converted files before pushing them anywhere important... just like when using OCR... some pdfs are just glorified bitmap images; those of course wouldn't transform very easily into usable text. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Thor Mirchandani Presens Technologies, Ltd. tel:             336 499 3796 mobile:      336 995 0084  Presens Technologies, Ltd. is a leading supplier of Open Source products and services in the Southeast United States. http://www.presensit.com </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>