Iterating over PDF documents

[Tomas]

"Peter Maas" <peter at somewhere.com> wrote in message 
news:cmv9j2$et5$1 at swifty.westend.com...
> I'm trying to edit a PDF document line-wise. This is more difficult
> than I thought, because PDF uses a mixture of all line terminators
> available in *X, Mac and Win so that utilizing "for line in file"
> is difficult.

If you're just going to extract some text or do searching, you can try the 
pdftotext utility and convert the document(s) to plain text. 
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pdftotext.html (Windows).

-Tomas