Oliver Grawert wrote: >there is one installed already with xpdf-utils, it's a commandline tool >and called pdftotext. > > Thanks ! Actually i've been thinking of some sort of GUI programm that allows the selection of text but #!/bin/sh pdftotext $@ $@.txt gedit $@.txt saved as ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/pdf2txt does the job even better !