[WEB4LIB] Re:Text extraction from pdf files.

[Craighton Hippenhammer]

Redwing from Datawatch will pull text from pdf files.  See:

http://www.datawatch.com/docs/products/redwing/index.html





Craighton Hippenhammer
Information Technology Librarian
Olivet Nazarene University
chhammer at olivet.edu

>>> Tony Barry <me at Tony-Barry.emu.id.au> 09/06/01 02:23AM >>>
At 7:06 PM -0700 5/9/01, Tony Parsons wrote:
>Does anyone know how to extract plain text from a pdf file?

http://www.pdfzone.com/news/bclconversionservice.html 

and

http://access.adobe.com/simple_form.html 

will convert PDF to HTML. After that a conversion to text is trivial.

Tony

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