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Bill McClain wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:50:04 -0400
>Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files
>>
>>from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this 
>>sort of problem?
>>    
>>
>
>I have used the pdftotext utility, part of the xpdf package, for similar
>tasks. In the case of hyphenated line endings, the word will be
>hyphenated and broken across lines just as in the pdf, and that might be
>a problem for the reader program.
>
>-Bill
>  
>
 From my own experience pdftotext also has trouble handling multicolumn 
documents. Adobe has an online utility for transforming PDF to html, 
which can rather easily be turned into text, which worked pretty well 
for me, breaking columns into something useful instead of mashing all 
the text together.

Regards,
Erik Hetzner