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[Neo Sze Wee <neoszewee AT gmx.net>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0400, keesan2 AT cyberspace.org wrote:
> 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

Is it for 16 bit DOS?

> did not).  I will try Doug Kaufman's version soon.

He has a version?

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

But not any pdf. What if you have a pdf file? How to upload to google?

> 
> > 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?