[Tutor] PDF to text conversion

[Norman Khine]

the itools library from hforge.org has a PDF2TEXT implementation itools.pdf

http://www.hforge.org/itools

norman

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Dayo Adewunmi <contactdayo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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