> Perhaps I'm just using pdftotext wrong? Here's how I was using it:
>
> sout = os.popen('pdftotext "%s" - ' %f)
If you are having trouble with popen (not unlikely)
how about just writing to a temporary file and
reading the text from there?
I've used pdftotext several times in the past few
weeks (but not on windows). It was a major
time saver for me.