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On Thu, 1 May 2003, Neo Sze Wee wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:13:52AM -0500, James Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, sindi keesan wrote:
> > > In my dos version I set lynx to display pdf files with pdftotext and I
> > > will look for that in Slackware 7.1.  Faster than ghostscript.
> > >
> > This sounded interesting, so I did a little googling on the subject.  So
> > far as I can tell, pdftotext is not available as an independent package.
> > Rather, it is part of the much larger (5MB?) xpdf package.  If you manage
> > to find a utility that does this other than the one in the xpdf package,
> > please let us know.

Pdftotext does not require ghostscript as far as I know.  (The DOS version
did not).  I will try Doug Kaufman's version soon.

Google also offers the option of displaying pdf webpages as text.

> If anyone can find a pdf to text thta does not rely on Ghostscript for
> its conversion , let us
> know. But all is not lost:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> * PDF CONVERSIONS BY EMAIL
> You can convert PDF documents to text or HTML via e-mail. For internet
> files put the URL in the body of an e-mail message to
> pdf2txt AT adobe.com (for plain text) or to pdf2html AT adobe.com (for HTML).
> If the file is on your PC then include as a MIME attachment and send
> to the same addresses depending uopn whter you want text or HTML.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have not tried it yet but let us know the output.
> 
> > James
> > 
> > PS Maybe there's a pdf2html that would be smaller and would work just as
> > well?
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