Converter PDF to txt or rtf

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Gunnar Noe

Hi,

I'm looking for a freeware converter wich can convert pdf documents in
txt or rtf documents.


Gunnar
 
there is a command-line tool xpdf, you can convert pdf to txt with drag &
drop on pdftotxt.exe
 
there is a command-line tool xpdf, you can convert pdf to txt with drag &
drop on pdftotxt.exe
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Program: XPDF
Author: Glyph & Cog LLC
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

or perhaps

Program: PDF2TXT
Author: (Dirk Schouten)
Ware: Freeware (Orphanware)
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=51612

Susan
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Susan said:
Program: XPDF
Author: Glyph & Cog LLC
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

or perhaps

Program: PDF2TXT
Author: (Dirk Schouten)
Ware: Freeware (Orphanware)
http://www.simtel.net/product.php?id=51612
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The main problem I keep running into is that, like saving to text from
within Acrobat Reader, separate paragraph structure is almost always
lost when using such programs and the resulting text runs all together.
Having to go back through a say, 200 page document and recreate the
paragraph structure is very tedious and usually impossible.

PDF2TXT has that problem and others. I've downloaded XPDF and will give
it a try though. Hope it works.

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John said:
The main problem I keep running into is that, like saving to text from
within Acrobat Reader, separate paragraph structure is almost always
lost when using such programs and the resulting text runs all together.
Having to go back through a say, 200 page document and recreate the
paragraph structure is very tedious and usually impossible.

PDF2TXT has that problem and others. I've downloaded XPDF and will give
it a try though. Hope it works.
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After some trying out I gave it up and bought FineReader 7. Gives
excellent results, also with tables which is usually the weak point of
the free programmes.
Frank
 
John Corliss said:
PDF2TXT has that problem and others. I've downloaded XPDF and will give
it a try though. Hope it works.
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try pdftotext (from xpdf) with and without the -layout option
 
FTR said:
After some trying out I gave it up and bought FineReader 7. Gives
excellent results, also with tables which is usually the weak point of
the free programmes.
Frank
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Yes, but of course this is a freeware newsgroup and so I'm not
interested at all in FineReader. Also, I don't really care about the
tables. Usually it's a .pdf book that I've downloaded somewhere that I'm
converting and paragraph breaks are important to keep.

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My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein and others.
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PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
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BRINE said:
try pdftotext (from xpdf) with and without the -layout option
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Thanks! I'll give it a try.

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My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein and others.
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez please.
 
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