extracting text from PDF file

[James Knott]

bob findlay wrote:
> I'm trying to extract some relevant text from a PDF file in a semi automated 
> fashion.
> 
> I've stumbled across the pdftotext utility on my Red Hat box.
> 
> When I run it fails saying that
> 
> 	"copying text from this document is not allowed".
> 
> If I run pdfinfo on the file I see that encryption is enabled.
> 
> Am I SOL or are there any bright ideas?

Later versions of Kword will import pdf files.

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