[ubuntu-za] PDF converter

[Jan Greeff]

For what it's worth, a friend of mine needed some pdf documents 
proofread, so I simply highlighted the text, copied and pasted into a 
Libre Office writer document from where I could edit them on my Ubuntu 
11.04.

It worked fine on black on white pdf's but not on reversed ones.

Langjan


On 30/03/2012 11:56, Adrianna Pińska wrote:
> Hi, Rodemire
>
> pdftotext is a command-line tool which converts PDFs to plain text --
> you could try that and see what you get.
>
> Everything depends on the format of the text in the pdf -- is it a
> single stream of text, or multiple columns of data?
>
> If the output is not what you want, but wrong in a consistent way, you
> could use various text-processing tools to process it afterwards.
>
> Regards,