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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> writes: |
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> On 01/06/2011 05:45 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which |
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>> are of test and "ASCIIbased tables", to pure text |
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>> (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). |
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>> What tool/s are worth being tried out for this task? |
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>> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> pdftotext might help. Comes with app-text/poppler. |
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If the output looks messed up, don't give up, first see the manpage, |
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there are some switches that may result in a better output. |
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I think using -layout will help you with the tables. |
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Nuno J. Silva |
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gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg |
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