extracting text from PDF file

[Henry Spencer]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, bob findlay wrote:
> 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".
> Am I SOL or are there any bright ideas?

It's probably not as good, but try pdftops followed by ps2ascii.  (The
ps2ascii manpage also has a reference to a pstotext program, although it
doesn't seem to exist on the Linux system I've got handy.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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