pdf to text converter

[Paul]

Hi everybody, Is there a package that will converts *.pdf files to text
file format.  Thanks in advance.
Paul



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Re: pdf to text converter

[Heikki Vatiainen]

I have pdftotext installed, it comes with the xpdf package. If you are using 
the unstable distribution see non-free/text section and for the stable 
distribution see the text section.

// Heikki
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Re: pdf to text converter

[Heikki Vatiainen]

Hi again,

I'm replying to your mail via debian-user list since there is something wrong 
with your nameserver right now and the mailer fails due to it.

Here is the original message:


Well, the only explanation I have is that we have different versions of xpdf 
and my verson has pdftotext and your version does not. I'm using the unstable 
distribution and you perhaps have stable installed.

See http://www.aimnet.com/¯derekn/xpdf/ for the authors xpdf pages. There he 
has 'getting xpdf' page which has a link to a binary executable 
(xpdf-0.7-linux2.0-elf.tar.gz) for the 0.7 version. The binary version is 
linked against libc5 and seems to have pdftotext in it.

Anyways, here is the info about the xpdf package I have installed.

% dpkg --status xpdf
Package: xpdf
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/text
Installed-Size: 590
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 0.7-3
Provides: pdf-viewer, postscript-preview
Depends: libc6, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5), xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0), mime-support (>= 2.01-1)
Description: Portable Document Format viewer for X11
 xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are
 sometimes called 'Acrobat' files after the name of Adobe's PDF software.)
 xpdf is designed to be small and efficient.  It does not use the Motif or
 Xt libraries.  It uses standard X fonts.  A program for conversion from
 pdf into ps, pdftops, is also included.

% dpkg --listfiles xpdf
/.
/usr
/usr/doc
/usr/doc/xpdf
/usr/doc/xpdf/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/doc/xpdf/copyright
/usr/doc/xpdf/README.gz
/usr/doc/xpdf/changelog.gz
/usr/X11R6
/usr/X11R6/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin/xpdf
/usr/X11R6/man
/usr/X11R6/man/man1
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/xpdf.1x.gz
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/pdftops
/usr/bin/pdftotext
/usr/man
/usr/man/man1
/usr/man/man1/pdftops.1.gz
/usr/man/man1/pdftotext.1.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/menu
/usr/lib/menu/xpdf

I hope this helps,

// Heikki
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Re: pdf to text converter

[jdassen]

On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Paul asked:
> Hi everybody, Is there a package that will converts *.pdf files to text
> file format.  Thanks in advance.

On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:05:23PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen suggested:
> I have pdftotext installed, it comes with the xpdf package. If you are
> using the unstable distribution see non-free/text section and for the
> stable distribution see the text section.

Another option is to use "pstotext"; for extracting text from PDF you need
at least ghostscript 3.51, such as the "gs-aladdin" package from non-free.

HTH,
Ray
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