From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PdpPh-0007xX-UF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:34:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49B41E0740; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:32:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075DFE0740 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1C01B44FC for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:32:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.079 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.079 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.547, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id U-sNWlq2-bMk for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFF181B44F5 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:32:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PdpO4-0001DQ-Fu for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:32:40 +0100 Received: from 190.203.237.114 ([190.203.237.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:32:40 +0100 Received: from sebasmagri by 190.203.237.114 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:32:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebasti=E1n_Ram=EDrez_Magr=ED?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -&amp;gt; txt Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:02:15 -0430 Message-ID: References: <20110106034521.GA5798@solfire> <20110107161825.GC5553@solfire> <20110108164725.GB8139@solfire> <20110110005238.GA5856@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 190.203.237.114 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <20110110005238.GA5856@solfire> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 4cfd6c88-8dce-4083-b8aa-5e1b669dc9f7 X-Archives-Hash: d6f11297f5f3ea475fb2f7d0bac2a1f1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 09/01/11 20:22, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > James [11-01-10 01:41]: >> gmx.de> writes: >> >> >>> I explored the manual of that tool (pdftk) but didnt find any >>> hint of converting pdf ot txt. >>> Please, give me one little, a keyword, only an option >>> which I can search for in the documentation to find >>> out how to convert pdf to txt with pdftk. >> >> >> Maybe this page can help? >> http://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/ >> Maybe pdftk is not the right tool for your needs? >> >> >> If all you want to do is convert a pdf to text, just >> use acroread (as previously suggested): >> >> There is a button at the top to save out the pdf file into >> a txt file.... >> -->File-->Save as Text >> >> >> cya, >> James >> >> > > Hi James, > > I asked here for a tool to convert from pdf to txt. > I had to recompile the gcc (missing USE-flag) to install pdftk. > This effort only to get said: > > "Maybe pdftk is not the right tool for your needs?" > > .... > > > > > If you use emacs you could also use docview mode to achieve that. It's a little bit processor heavy but just does the work for me. - -- http://sebasmagri.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJNMKS+AAoJECm0W7LfoBgvv+4H/AkS/mBYmtGm6jnTu87F+3bW 0cLwrSbe7OhpBU1xZxhhiraNRKhDUTFZxZ3pipSxajtBdwsvMcpRPPTyNKz0mLiu hOWlEIpDQchxTm1tMzCz3HB9mF+7G9MPvSjF0SYSKdt6R9okUm9FmAti8oXmy1db RSymQCzKi1oBr97PKwpC/tavC5tTS9t2i+RUF7rIgV2KuVvHG0M+bHlFrpCDrDsi Q6bac/Qz/pO35qSyNUWok4nBmKWdELztTSChC4+/0oYlmXtPab1c2s8C6XkcpmKK hVvneGd9lfFmPsMeFVZfjQziRN3vbasFj2vl3rY/0aj9hssu85JK4nxdxqXLqlk= =ykzz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----