joaonuno Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Does anyone knows how to convert pdf files in text files? Is there any free program to do that? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 I suppose you could use pdf2ps, and then ps2a. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 You can also select all in kpdf, and copy-paste as text, and you could also use koffice, it can import pdf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Kword 1.4.2 will open and edit PDF files and I believe you can then save them as you wish. 1.4.2 is not in 2006, but is in cooker. I've done some PDF editing with it. I haven't tried to see how the various options for saving work. I've only used it with Debian Sid, so I'm not sure how things are with cooker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard-gt Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 There's a pdftotext command line tool, it should be included with the xpdf package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 You may be able to use the gimp too. I haven't tried yet, but there is a plugin to read and write pdf files. http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=195 It reads PostScript and PDF files. It writes PostScript files. To interprete PostScript, ghostscript with the pXmraw-drivers must be installed. To interprete PDF, the ghostscript must be able of interpreting PDF. (V1.01 : parse rc file) (V1.02 : support anti-aliasing, no progress bars for non-interactive mode, new procedure to set interpretation arguments in non-interactive mode) (V1.04 : support Encapsulated PostScript writing and preview) (V1.05 : save b/w-indexed images with 24 times less disk space) (V1.06 : fix problem with writing color PS-files) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 (edited) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software Edited December 16, 2005 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Sorry, but ain't "saving as text" a built-in feature of Acroread 7? :P (If it isn't, then I'm just a lucky bastard, as I've done it up to now dozens of times...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hello Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 Does anyone knows how to convert pdf files in text files? Is there any free program to do that? Thanks Sure. Use Ghostscript. Inside there's a pdftotext utility. pdftotext -q -f 1 -l 100 the_pdf.pdf the_txt.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 On Arch, that same utility is in the poppler package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 18, 2007 Report Share Posted December 18, 2007 ...and since an old thread has been brought back, one can also use right now "pdfedit" which can take a pdf document, add/remove pages, manipulate images, and convert it to text, image(s), or different resolution pdf... pretty much an "Acrobat for *nix"- surely with less features, but not bad at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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