[ubuntu-za] How to copy text from PDF file (URGENT)

[William Walter Kinghorn]

Hi Ian,

I use gImageReader : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimagereader/
Features

    Open images and PDFs
    Acquire from scanner
    Select the part of the image to recognize
    Support for different recognition languages
    Side by side comparison of source image and output text
    Remove linebreaks in output text
    Supports tesseract 3.0


Searched Google for "ubuntu convert pdf"

found these for you to try, if gImageReader does not work for you
http://embraceubuntu.com/2007/04/10/convertimport-from-pdf-and-keep-the-formatting/
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-convert-pdf-files-to-html-files.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/pdf-to-doc-converter-344569/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199201
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2008/11/howto-convert-pdf-to-txt-in-ubuntu.html

Hope this helps

William

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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ian Whitfield [whitfield at federalsaints.net]
Sent: 11 May 2011 20:43
To: Ubuntu List
Subject: [ubuntu-za] How to copy text from PDF file (URGENT)

Hi all

I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 and have to copy text from PDF files.

Some work, others don't so they must have copy protection set. I Googled
for ideas and have tried different Readers, PDF2PS and then PS2PDF, Open
in Gimp and save as JPG and then open in OO and convert to PDF again.
Nothing works for me!!

Has anyone got a foolproof way of doing this as it is rather urgent as I
have to finish a project.

Thanks a lot

Ian Whitfield.
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