12-03-2009
You could try using a pdf2txt (PDF to text) converter pipe it though a grep -v "^$" to remove empty lines and then use
pr(1) to format text into 3 columns and then print?
Anybody found a pdf2txt utility or do you convert to postscript first using pdf2ps and then to text using ps2txt?
This will only work if the PDF really contains text rather than being an image of text.
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urlcoding
URLCODING(3) libbash urlcoding Library Manual URLCODING(3)
NAME
urlcoding -- a Libbash library for encoding and decoding URL's.
SYNOPSIS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
urlEncodeStream [-l]
urlDecodeString <STRING>
urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
urlDecodeStream
DESCRIPTION
urlcoding is a collection of functions that convert ASCII-text to standard URL's and vice-versa. The AWK code used is based on code by Heiner
Steven <heiner.steven@odn.de>
The function list:
urlEncodeString Creates a URL from an ASCII string
urlEncodeFile Converts a file into URL-valid text
urlEncodeStream Converts standard input into URL-valid text
urlDecodeString Converts a URL-encoded text back to a plain-text form
urlDecodeFile Coverts URL-encoded text in a file back to plain text
urlDecodeStream Converts URL-encoded standard input to text
Detailed interface description follows.
The [-l] option for the encoding functions should be used when line-feed characters ('
') are to be encoded as well.
All functions print the results of their conversions to standard output.
The exit status of all functions is that of the command 'awk', with '0' for success
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
urlEncodeString [-l] <STRING>
Converts STRING - a string of ASCII characters - to URL.
urlEncodeFile [-l] <FILE>
Coverts FILE of URL-encoded text to plain text
urlEncodeStream [-l]
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urlDecodeString <STRING>
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urlDecodeFile <FILENAME>
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urlDecodeStream
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AUTHORS
Alon Keren <alon.keren@gmail.com>
SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1)
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