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Author Re: Extracting text from pdf
Kurt Krueckeberg

2004-10-27, 8:55 pm



> Does anyone know of any other tool for PDF text extraction ?
>
>
> ps2ascii cannot seem to parse all of the pdf file. I tried the pstotext
> tool to, but with same result.
> I figured that it has something to do with my ghostscript version being
> too old (7.05, newest is 8.14).
>
> Unfortunally I have no experience in installing/upgrading unix stuff
> (having spend half an evening trying in vain and confusion).


Adobe's website will convert a pdf file that is on a website to html. Try
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrob...nlinetools.html


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