Re: Reading a pdf text file
Re: Reading a pdf text file
- Subject: Re: Reading a pdf text file
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 01:22:58 +0000
on 10/1/05 12:05 am, Gil Dawson wrote:
> At 10:44 AM -0500 1/9/05, Richard Smykla wrote:
>> After installing the xpdf-tools package, the command-line tool
>> pdftotext can be found in the /sw/bin/ directory. (At least that is
>> where it installed by default on my machine.)
>
> I'm not sure it went into the same place on mine, but then I haven't
> found the /sw/bin directory on my machine yet.
Carsten Blüm has created an installer for pdftotext:
<http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pdftotext_en/>
It will install it into /usr/bin and comes with a man page.
Don't discount Preview when you want text from PDFs. If you want text from
protected PDFs you should take a look at the "Services" menu as there are
some laughably big security problems with the methods that are used to
protect PDFs and the methods that Mac apps use to grab text from documents.
There's more to security than disabling the copy command...
--
Martin Orpen
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