Quoting Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at tcd.ie):
> Doh. I don't know what "psdtotext" is, perhaps it converts Photoshop files
> into text :) I meant of course pdftotext. I tried the pdf2ps + ps2ascii
> approach which, as you say, results in lots of ^L. Maybe pdf2ps throws away
> the text. Anyway, pdftotext does give the actual text.
Ah, pdftotext is from the pdf-utils package. I've now grabbed that,
too, and will try it out in the future.
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