[pdftex] Re: pdf to text?

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

James W. Haefner <jhaefner at biology.usu.edu> asks on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:51:43 -0700:

>> Is there a functional equivalent [of pstotext and dvitty] for pdf?

Yes: pdftotext, part of the xpdf distribution:

    http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
    ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/

Another approach is to convert the PDF to PostScript (with acroread or
gs), and then apply ghostscript's ps2ascii or Compaq/DEC's pstotext
(which uses gs underneath).  A new release of that appeared recently:

	http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper

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