extracting text from PDF file

[Ian Goldberg]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:15:38PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> fcsoft-3Emkkp+1Olsmp8TqCH86vg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >
> >http://nationalboard.org/Redbook/redbook.html
> >
> >unfortunately you have to go via Gatesware to get them (self extracting 
> >exe).
> 
> it's a self-extracting Zip file -- Linux unzip will handle it.
> 
> There used to be a PDF encryption patch for GhostScript -- can't seem to 
> find it any more.

Recent ghostscript has it already included.  At least on my system,
it's /usr/share/gs/7.05/pdf_sec.ps .

   - Ian
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