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Re: Reading The Text of PDF files
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Re: Reading The Text of PDF files


  • Subject: Re: Reading The Text of PDF files
  • From: Ben Dougall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:35:23 +0100

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:56 pm, Lorenzo wrote:

Hi,
thank you but if I want to sell my software I have to pay for xpdf. Do you
know some other really free methods in order to get the text from PDF files?
Thank you.

isn't it gnu licensed? i'm pretty sure it is, and seeing as it compiles into a command line tool you can contain it within your bundle and easily use it as an external thing from your code without any legal problems i think. (that's external as in not mixing your code with pdf2text's code - two separate things, but from the user's point-of-view one application)


how have you got on with the .doc to plain text conversion? i'd be interested to know if you had any success with that, and if so what route / method did you use?, as i'd like to do the same soon.

thanks, ben.





Best Regards
--
Lorenzo
email: email@hidden

From: Ben Dougall <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:19:14 +0100
To: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Reading The Text of PDF files


On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 02:33 pm, Lorenzo wrote:

Hi,
how can I get the pure text from a PDF file?

pdf2text which is part of xpdf, an open source pdf thing. the pdf2text
part does not involve any gui stuff and is pretty easily (i managed it)
compiled and run as a command line tool in os x and does exactly what
you're asking.
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