From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pdf2txt
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 07:53:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a04110304535d54cd9f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACCF003CBA3D09458207DB0CB86AD17D2014A0@XMAIL.asuch.cas.cz>
> looking into src of 'page', it seems that
> pdf docs don't go to GhostScript, but are treated internally.
they go to ghostscript.
> Would it then be a problem to have something like 'pdf2txt'?
>
> cat doc.pdf | pdf2ps | ps2a (or the like)
>
> doesn't work apparently due to pdf2ps.
you could look at the xpdf tools, which include
a pdftotext.
> Or, hoe do YOU index your pdf docs? Manually??
i don't.
russ
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