[access-uk] Re: is pdf2txt still working?

  • From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:43:11 +0000

Alexander Shannon wrote:

> There used to be a thing called pdf2txt to which one could send .PDF files 
> and they came back as text.  Does anyone know if this is still working, or 
> of an equivalent service please, as converting this document is proving 
> rather difficult.

Have a look at:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

There is also a command line pdftotext program as a part of the free and open 
source
XPDF project, for which a Windows binary is available:

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

Random googling suggests pdf2txt itself is still available too, for a price:

http://www.verypdf.com/pdf2txt/pdf2txt.htm

Hope that helps.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

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