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Date: Wed,  3 Nov 2004 07:53:42 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pdf2txt
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> 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