On 22/09/11 15:31, Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have a 96 page pdf file that I need to convert to text in one run. > I've imported it into inkscape but that only converts one page at a > time. I've tried using pdftotext but i cant work out the syntax for > that so am unable to test it out properly. I've tried pdfedit but that > only works on one page at a time and doesnt convert it to text. > > Can anyone help me out with suggestions for converting the pdf in one > go to text please? > > Many thanks > Sharon.
Do you mean a multi-page or many pages? Converting all of a multi-page pdf is just:- $ pdftotext multipage_example.pdf which will produce a single text file called multipage_example.txt containing all the text from the pdf. If you want to preserve the format try pdftohtml If some (or all) of the content is images of text try tesseract - though you'll have to do a little preparation. Ocular will also export a pdf to text (providing all the text in the pdf is actual text, not images) Cheers -- "People say to me, "Bill, quit bringing up Kennedy, man. Let it go. It was a long time ago. Just forget about it." All right, then don't bring up Jesus to me. I mean, as long as we're talking shelf-life here. "You know, Bill, Jesus died for you …" Yeah, it was a long time ago. Forget about it. How about this: get Pilate to release the [beep]in' files. Quit washing your hands, Pilate, and release the files. Who else was on that grassy Golgotha that day? Oh yeah, the three Roman peasants in $100 sandals" — Bill Hicks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7acf0d.9020...@gmail.com
