David Boddie wrote: > The pdftotext tool may do what you want: > > http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html > > Let us know how you get on with it.
I have used this tool. However, I need PDF read ability on Windows and Linux and in the future Macs. pdftotext works great on Linux, but poorly on Windows (100% sustained CPU usage, etc). Thank you for the suggestion. I'll keep hammering away at a simple Python solution to this. Over the years, I have come to loath Adobe's Portable Document Format! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list