PDF to text?

[John Pilkington]

On 15/08/11 11:02, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> 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.
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>> I don't care about format just need to translate with fair accuracy
>> from the French.
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>> Is there a conversion app.?.
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>> Bob
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> /usr/bin/pdftotext
>   rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdftotext
> poppler-utils-0.17.0-1.fc16.x86_64

But it became clear later that the pdf in question was a scanned image 
and needed an OCR based approach.  Is that what this offers?

John P