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[nycphp-talk] SEARCHING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH UNIX

DeWitt, Michael mjdewitt at alexcommgrp.com
Thu Mar 4 21:28:40 EST 2004


Dan,

Ha, that is funny, I didn't know there was a binary xpdf. I have never used
it, just pdftotext. I am looking at the directory for xpdf and can see it
now. xpdf seems nice - renders much faster than acrobat and looks fairly
accurate.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Convissor [SMTP:danielc at analysisandsolutions.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 04, 2004 9:21 PM
> To:	NYPHP Talk
> Subject:	Re: [nycphp-talk] SEARCHING PDF DOCUMENTS WITH UNIX
> 
> Howdy:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:17:35PM -0500, DeWitt, Michael wrote:
> > 
> > Isn't pdftotext part of the xpdf package?
> 
> >From the man page, looks like it is.  But one doesn't need to have 
> xwindows running in order to use pdftotext.  Seems like xpdf does.
> 
> --Dan
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