> I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, > but is there any way of extracting information such > as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone > knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other > things than view them, and occasionally print them, > using xpdf, but now I need to cut and paste a piece > of text and a couple of pictures from as PDF file.
i often use pdftotext, it works great (xpdf package). pdftopbm should help you with images, but i never tried it. hope it helps. pietro.