PDF to formatted text (?)

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Feb 4 17:28:34 UTC 2007


Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I wanted to edit text from a PDF, I could use pdftotext and use the plain 
> text provided then. But then, I would also have to recreate the whole 
> formatation of bold, italics and such.
> 
> I thought it would be nice if OOo not only exported to PDF but also imported, 
> but I just checked and it doesn´t.
> 
> Does anyone around know of a way to recover/convert the pdf to formatted text 
> (maybe RTF, or else)?

Try:

pdftohtml -noframes myFile.pdf


Matthew Flaschen

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