I've not used it, but will underscore the recommendation for swish-e, based on what I've heard about it.

But to answer your specific question, I use pdftotext to extract the ascii text from a compliant pdf file. Its a bash command line tool which is distributed with the xpdf reader application in many linux distributions. It won't work on scanned images (for which that PDF::OCR sounds particularly interesting; I'll have to check that out, ++ and thanks!). But for folks who export editable documents to PDF, it works like a charm (though is challenged a bit by multi-column content).

-- Hugh

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In reply to Re: PDF Text by hesco
in thread PDF Text by bmac

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