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Tux-O-Matic 10-03-2006 04:32 PM
PDF to Command line format
 
I'm looking for some sort of software to convert a pdf (or other file that's not formatted to the command line) into command-line format.:jawa: :Pengy:
I mean for Linux...

michaelk 10-03-2006 04:57 PM
What do you mean by command line format? ASCII text?
Have you googled for pdf text converter?

Tux-O-Matic 10-03-2006 05:03 PM
I want to be able to view PDF's in a command line window without having to buy that expensive "PDF to Text (pdf2text) SDK-COM" converter.
And I would like it to be a bash command.

michaelk 10-03-2006 05:20 PM
AFAIK a PDF console viewer does not exist. However, xpdf contains console tools to convert a pdf file to html (pdftohtml) or text (pdftotext).

http://freshmeat.net/projects/xpdf/

Garda 10-04-2006 06:32 AM
i'm sure that there are many tools that let you convert pdf files into html files. There would probably also be some (probably fewer) tools to convert pdf to plain text.

you can view html files in the command line using lynx and text files can easily be read with a text editor or simply cat

try something like

Code:
cat textfile.txt | less
that should let you look at text files from the command line

hand of fate 10-04-2006 06:56 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Garda
Code:
cat textfile.txt | less
that should let you look at text files from the command line
I'm not tatally sure what the commands actually mean, but in my experience just
Code:
less textfile.txt
does exactly the same thing with less code.

pwc101 10-04-2006 07:05 AM
try
Code:
pdf2ps some_file.pdf some_file.ps && ps2ascii some_file.ps | less
edit: it seems I also have a command pdftotext, which does the same as above, but without needing to output to a ps file.


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