RE: [iText-questions] Convert PDF to text

2006-05-22 Thread Mark Storer
> I have tried using a utility called > pdftotext. I does a > pretty good job when invoked with the -layout switch. That > switch preserves > the document layout. However pdftotext produces garbage > characters for some fonts it seems. There are at least three ways of including text in a PDF:

Re: [iText-questions] Convert PDF to text

2006-05-22 Thread bruno
Daniel Haglund wrote: Hi. I tried searching the archive but could not find a suitable answer. That's because there is none. I would like to know if it is possible to convert a simple (i.e. no images) PDF-file to text? I have tried using a utility called pdftotext. I does a pretty good job

[iText-questions] Convert PDF to text

2006-05-21 Thread Daniel Haglund
Hi. I tried searching the archive but could not find a suitable answer. I would like to know if it is possible to convert a simple (i.e. no images) PDF-file to text? I have tried using a utility called pdftotext. I does a pretty good job when invoked with the -layout switch. That switch preser