PDF to formatted text (?)

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Mon Feb 5 06:04:49 UTC 2007


NoOp wrote:
> Garry Knight wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>
>>> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone around know of a way to recover/convert the pdf to formatted
>>>> text (maybe RTF, or else)?
>>> pdftohtml -noframes myFile.pdf
>> Or you can import it into KWord.
>>
> 
> Now that's just slick! Thanks for pointing that out; I would have never
> thought of loading KWord. SaveAs to Opendocument text format works like
> a charm too.

I uninstalled that (even though I use Kubuntu). :)  It really depends on
what the ultimate destination of the data is.  You want to minimize the
number of conversions.

Matthew Flaschen

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