Convert PDF to Text?

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Sun Apr 22 18:42:28 UTC 2007


On Sunday 22 April 2007, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 April 2007, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> > > kwrite from koffice can read and edit .pdf  files
> >
> > (quite
> >
> > > well), so you should be able to save it as plain
> >
> > text. I
> >
> > > guess that with dcop you can make a script to do
> >
> > this
> >
> > > with multiple files for you.
> >
> > Is there some specific way to open a PDF file with
> > Kwrite?
> >
> > I tried this but it gives a warning that the file is
> > binary
> > and saving it will corrupt the file. The file opens
> > but it
> > is binary code that I have no idea how to convert to
> > plain
> > text even if I copied some of it to another file.
>
> Kword not kwrite.  Kwrite is for text files.  kword
> will/should do the job.

Kword won't even open the file because it does not recognize 
or support the format.

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