PDF to text?

[Chris Kloiber]

You could try something like:

# pdf2ps input.pdf postscript.ps
# ps2ascii postscript.ps output.txt

Good luck.

On 08/12/2011 11:10 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>          I have a .pdf file I need to convert to text in order to use
>          Google translate on it. I tried copy/paste but it won't copy
>          from a .pdf.
>
>          I don't care about format just need to translate with fair
>          accuracy from the French.
>
>          Is there a conversion app.?.
>
>          Bob
>
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