PDF to text?

[Andras Simon]

2011/8/12, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>:
>         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.?.

If all else (copy&paste, pdftotext, ps2ascii) fails, you can use
http://any2djvu.djvu.org/ to have it converted to djvu with OCR, and
then extract the text with djvutxt from the resulting djvu file.

Andras