On 03/19/99 Howard Arons uttered the following other thing:
> On Mar 17, 1999, Howard Arons wrote:
> > There have been some nice tips here lately re filters for viewing the 
> > text in rtf and html docs. Anyone have a pointer for a PDF viewer?
> 
> Duh! (Hits head on monitor) When I said viewer, I really didn't mean 
> /viewer/. I'm looking for an app that will extract ASCII text, like 
> 'html2txt' does for html. Sorry for the misleading question.

If you have xpdf installed, the following works:
application/pdf;        pdftotext %s -; copiousoutput

Brandon
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