[KLUG Members] reading pdf

[bill]

Is it possible to use ghostscript or something similar to read pdfs to 
look for certain text?

The pdf files I'm working with are PDF-1.2 created elsewhere with GNU 
Ghostscript 6.51, but the text in the file is not readable.

To clarify, I'm not looking to view the file, or have it read by human 
eyes, I'm looking to have something that can look for text, or extract 
the text so I can look for it with an external program.

Ideas, suggestions and pointers are welcome.

kind regards,

bill hollett