pdf2doc2rtf2html2txt

petemar1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

has anyone ever heard of taking an adobe acrobat file and stripping it down to those less formatted text file extensions (to msword, then to rich text, then to html, then finally vanilla text)?

- m peters - www gwangwa com -

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Re: pdf2doc2rtf2html2txt by KM (Priest) on Sep 08, 2000 at 20:36 UTC
I believe there is a pdf->text translator (or plugin with an API). Since text is the lowest common denomonator, I would then convert text to those other formats. You may want to look at the PDF related CPAN modules and see what ones can read in a PDF file, from which you could likely just get the text out of. If I get a chance, I will try to find some URL for you, or you can use Google :) Cheers, KM	[reply]
Re: pdf2doc2rtf2html2txt by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 08, 2000 at 20:45 UTC
Yeah, Adobe provides this directly at their website. I don't know if the programs they use are also available though. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]