[KLUG Members] reading pdf

[bill]

And we have a winner.  pdftotext will do exactly what I need.

thanks,

bill

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>>Is it possible to use ghostscript or something similar to read pdfs to 
>>look for certain text?
> 
> 
> [awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ whereis pdftotext
> pdftotext: /usr/bin/pdftotext /usr/share/man/man1/pdftotext.1.gz
> [awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdftotext
> xpdf-2.01-11
> [awilliam@estate2 awilliam]$
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