[Dclug] converting pdf tp txt

[Leo Charre]

Yeah, but that has limitations. A lot of pdf documents are scans and have no
text layer.
I wrote something to help do this.. I maintain PDF::OCR2 :
http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/PDF-OCR2-1.20/lib/PDF/OCR2.pod
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Leo Charre
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http://leocharre.com/resume
http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:28 PM, The Doctor <drwho at virtadpt.net> wrote:

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> Cecil Taylor wrote:
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> > Does anyone know a linux program that will convert pdf files to text.
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> pdftotext from poppler (http://poppler.freedesktop.org) will extract the
> text component from .pdf files.
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> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
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> I may not know what I am capable of, but I am well versed in what I am not.
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