Problems with pdftotext

[Kevin Cozens]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I intend to write a blog entrey, and possibly send a letter about Ms.
> Cavoukian's support of "The 7 Laws".  I want to include a point-by-point
> refutation of some of her more outrageous whoppers.  I downloaded the
> PDF file from the Ontario government website, and ran it through
> pdf2text, so I could include quotes from it.  Let's just say that the
> translation didn't come out 100% perfect.  The problems include...

I recently had a need to convert two PDF files to HTML. I told yum to install 
pdftohtml. It installed the package poppler-tools which has several PDF to 
something programs. I wasn't too happy with the result.

I then checked the web sites and found their was source for a version of the 
program newer than what I had just installed. The version I built and 
installed from source worked much better and gave me what I needed.

I would suggest you check to see if there is a newer version of the pdftotext 
program available on the net. If so, build it and install it. If you are 
lucky(? like I was), you will find it works better for you should you need it 
again in the future.

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Kevin.

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