Associate Dean:
n |I do not know about pdf2txt. Could someone please post a source for it
|and perhaps add a link to the www.mutt.org pages - I do not think it is
|there vut could of course be wrong.
pdftotext was written by the same guy that did xpdf.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/xpdf.html
pdf2txt is just my simple shell script wrapper for it which supports getting
the text file on standard output. See attached.
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Randall Hopper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> pdftotext
pdftotext version 0.90 (decryption)
Copyright c 1996-1999 Derek B. Noonburg
Decryption (originally) by Leo J.B. Smiers
Usage: pdftotext [options] <PDF-file> [<text-file>]
-f <int> : first page to convert
-l <int> : last page to convert
-ascii7 : convert to 7-bit ASCII (default is 8-bit ISO Latin-1)
-raw : keep strings in content stream order
-q : don't print any messages or errors
-h : print usage information
-help : print usage information
> pdf2txt
Must specify PDF file on command-line.
Usage: pdf2txt <pdf-file> [<text-file>]
#!/bin/sh
#
# Dump PDFs to stdout or a file in text format
#
TMPFILE=/tmp/pdf2txt.$$
trap "rm -f $TMPFILE; trap 0; exit" 0 1 2 3 13 15
usage=y
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
usage=n
else
echo "Must specify PDF file on command-line."
fi
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
exec 1>"$2"
fi
if [ $usage = y ]; then
echo
echo "Usage: $0 <pdf-file> [<text-file>]"
exit 1
fi
pdftotext "$1" $TMPFILE
cat $TMPFILE
