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From: James <wireless@Tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: pdf -&gt; txt
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 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:


>  I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which
>  are of test and "ASCIIbased tables", to pure text
>  (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ).

app-text/pdftk

http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/


Is very cool for all things PDF on linux.....


hth,
James