On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Alister Hood wrote: > Sorry if someone else replied and I missed it. > I don't know how to do this with pdfedit, but you could alternatively > try the pdftotext tool from xpdf, or pdftohtml if that is more suitable > for your purpose. > > Alister
I am currently using pdftotext in my script. However, it doesn't work well. That means, it drops a lot of spaces between words which makes the output almost unuseable. This may be a problem with the PDF-input, but I have no influence on this. For this reason I tried to use pdfedit and found, that it's much better: the output is perfect. >From the man page I can see that there is a command line mode. I found the script savealltext.qs on the wiki. But I can't figure out how to use this from the command line. I still guess it must be easy, but I have no success so far. Unfortunately I could not find any examples of how to use pdfedit in command line mode. Thomas > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Spahni [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:21 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Pdfedit-support] Save file as text from the command line > > Hello > > I'm a new subscriber on this list; greetings to everyone. > > I have a bash script which at some point should translate a PDF file to > plain text. Let's say we have foobar.pdf and want to convert it to > foobar.txt. I can do this from the GUI but I'm unable to figure out what > > the command should be to do the same from the command line. > > Yes, I read the docs, manpage, wiki, archives, but still no luck. Yor > help > would be very much appreciated. > > Details: PDFedit 0.4.2 from the SuSE-11.1 packman repo. > > Best ragards, > Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Pdfedit-support mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Pdfedit-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdfedit-support
