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Hi.
In the Debian repositories are many items that deal with PDFs. Among them is:
Code:
NAME
pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version
3.02)
SYNOPSIS
pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]
DESCRIPTION
Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.
I found very little in the standard SuSE repositories. Perhaps you can search for better repositories for SuSE.
The package that includes pdftotext is:
Code:
xpdf is a suite of tools for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are
sometimes called 'Acrobat' files after the name of Adobe's PDF software.)
.
The tools include xpdf, a PDF viewer (in the package xpdf-reader),
and PDF converters (including to/from PostScript) (in the package
xpdf-utils).
And a link that may be of use is: Xpdf At the site several links are provided for pre-compiled instances for numerous *nix including BSDs, Solaris, and HP-UX.
I just tried a test run of pdftotext on the documentation pdf for msort. It produced text just as promised -- pdftotext version 3.02
Is there a way to covert te attached text file to a pdf?
I have tried:
enscript-p output.ps article.txt
PRE.cjk { font-family: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei",monospace; }PRE.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Hindi",monospace; }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } awk '{ A=$2; next} END { for (i in A) print... (7 Replies)
Is there a way using the pdf to text utility to convert all the pdf in a given directory?
So instead of one at a time:
pdftotext pdftotext hp-manual.pdf hp-manual.txt
a directory of 50 pdf files would be converted:
pdftotext /home/dnascopev/Desktop/PDF.pdf /home/dnascopev/Desktop/PDF.txt
... (6 Replies)
I am trying to find a way to convert a Word doc saved in the XML format to a PDF file (that looks like the original Word doc). Yes, there are all kinds of ways to do this interactively. What I need is something that can be run as a background process so that when XML files are placed in a... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have a pdf file. i want to convert it to text file and do some work on it and later want to convert it back to pdf. Can this be done via unix?
or
Is there a way unix can directly work on PDF file? (2 Replies)
Good day,
I've been trying to look for a way to compile the Xpdf sources in our HP-UX server, but have been failing to do so because there is no GCC installed, and I don't have privileges to install GCC. I was looking for a functionality to convert PDF files to .txt, which is exactly like the... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
We are currently using a JAVA program that enables us to use some forms and convert them from PDF to print them postscript. It works great except that everytime it runs JAVA sucks 100% of the CPU.
What can I do to reduce the impact?
I am looking at:
1. Nice the java... (1 Reply)
