Convert PDF to Text?

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

I have some PDF documents that are photocopied text documents (embedded
image, rather than text glyphs). When I open these with Evince, I am
able to copy and paste the actual text. At first I though this was some
kind of OCR process, but then I realised it's actually the document
itself, which has the original text embedded in it (OCRed and embedded
during the original scan).

Is there any command I can use to extract the text from these PDF
documents in a batch? I have a couple of thousand documents that need
converting.

Just curious, since if Evince can obviously do it (manually) then the
necessary library components (at least) must be installed (FC6).

TIA.

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K.
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