From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 30 Sep 1999 - 18:00:23 IST
I'd say get xpdf and see what you can do with it... pdftotext comes with
it .. you might be able to bully it into retrieving what you want ..
xpdf comes with most Linux distribs nowadays ... well I've got it on my
RH6.0 ...
Regards,
Dave.
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Kathryn Cassidy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Due to a big disk crash here a couple of weeks ago and the fact that my
> boss wouldn't take my advice and buy a decent backup system, I've got to
> recover the text from some pdf files.
>
> These files have a reasonable amount of fancy formatting (tables and the
> like mostly) so I'd ideally like some way of converting them to rtf or
> something similar. However, any format will do so long as I can get the text.
>
> A search on google brought up a couple of promising tools, but they all
> need Acrobat Exchange which I don't have.
>
> If anyone knows of tools that'll do this under linux or windows I'd be
> grateful if you could pass on the knowledge.
>
> Replies off list please as this is way off topic...
>
> Thanks,
> Kathryn.
>
>
>
>
>
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