Text extraction from pdf files.

[Tony Parsons]

Dear all,

This is only a vaguely web-related question, as we'd be using email to
disseminate the information once this problem is solved. Hopefully it's not
too inappropriate, I'm just not aware, yet, of many library computing-type
lists.

Does anyone know how to extract plain text from a pdf file? I have scanned
some documents with Adobe exchange, which we would like to manipulate into
text. I've done a bit of hunting around with not much luck, as far as
conversion software is concerned. Ghostview/Ghostscript progams seems to
extract no text with the pdf's I've scanned.

Should I just give up and organise a different method of scanning, or is
there a *reasonably* straightforward way of doing this?

Regards
Tony.
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Tony Parsons
Technical Services Librarian
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - Resource Centre
Ph  (03) 9214 1487
Fax (03) 9214 1403
http://www.racgp.org.au
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