extracting text from PDF file

Mark Borg borgtech-zkJH4PR2EqW8rjiVs5Nzzw at public.gmane.org
Thu Apr 22 01:39:41 UTC 2004


On Wed April 21 2004 13:59, Noah John Gellner wrote:
> Are you able to disclose the document that you are trying to convert? I
> wonder if Redhat hasn't disabled some functionality in pdftotext. I use
> the app all the time to view pdf attachments on my console. To test
> again, I downloaded a random pdf document and it worked very well.
>
> I would be interested to see if there are documents that are internally
> limited or if this is something imposed by Redhat.
>
> Noah
>
> On 13:35 Wed 21 Apr     , fcsoft-3Emkkp+1Olsmp8TqCH86vg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > > When I run it fails saying that
> > >  "copying text from this document is not allowed".
> > > Am I SOL or are there any bright ideas?
hi, is this an encrypted pdf or a document created with a late version of 
acrobat?
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