[Tutor] PDF to text conversion

[Dayo Adewunmi]

Emile van Sebille wrote:
> Robert Berman wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> Have any of you worked with such a library, or do you know of one or 
>> two I can download and work with? Hopefully, they have reasonable 
>> documentation.
>>
>> My development environment is:
>>
>> Python
>> Linux
>> Ubuntu version 8.10
>>
>
> I've used
>
> [root at fcfw2 /]# /usr/bin/pdftotext -v
> pdftotext version 2.01
> Copyright 1996-2002 Glyph & Cog, LLC
> [root at fcfw2 /]# cat /etc/issue
> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Emile
>
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Hi Robert,
pdftotext is part of poppler-utils, an Ubuntu package which can be 
installed like so:

sudo aptitude install poppler-utils

But I to would be interested in finding a python library/module for this.

Regards,

Dayo