[Techtalk] PDF to txt

[Jane Andersen]

Hi,

I have a program called pdftotext which has worked well for me in the past.

I think it is part of the xpdf-utils package (at least I think that
that is where I got it, using apt).

Kat

> Noir wrote:
> >
> > I been trying to convert PDF file to plaintext.
> >
> > $pdf2ps filename.pdf output.ps
> > $ps2ascii filename.ps output.txt
> > Output: txt file.
> >
> > But the problem is there's nothing inside the file. It's all garbage like
> > lots of @@@@.

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