On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 07:52:43PM +0000, Jozef Misutka wrote: > > hi, > > i changed the algorithm of pdftotext a bit but it is far from what i > would like it to be. nevertheless, i can provide you with source code > of you tool using our pdfedit library extract text function but you > would have to compile it by your own. will it help?
Isn't this just overkill for something that is already scripted and it is only matter how to call the script? Martin, could you help with this? > > /jozo > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:52:46 +0200 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Pdfedit-support] Save file as text from the command line > > > > 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. 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