[KLUG Members] reading pdf

[MPs]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, 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]$
>

Or ps2ascii

ps2ascii: /usr/bin/ps2ascii /usr/man/man1/ps2ascii.1.gz

[part of Ghostscript I beleve]

Miles Pschigoda