Hi all
Is there any program which can convert PDF to word processor file ? If the PDF has smart quotes, bullet icons, copyright and trademark symbols, etc. what happens to them intext format? So ideally would like to conver into rtf or doc.
Thanks
SS

well there's the program pdf2ps which converts PDF files to PostScript, then there's the program ps2ascii which converts PostScript to ASCII. I think that's as good as you'll get unless you trawl google for a better program.

The xpdf package is a reasonably good free pdf viewer. In the xpdf-utils package, there is also a pdftotext command included (use: pdftotext somefile.pdf myfile.txt). Otherwise, you may want to use the pdftohtml package (same syntax). (The pdftohtml program keeps more of the original layout.)
I am using Ubuntu (now 5.04 or Hoary, by far the best distribution there is :-) and the packages xpdf-utils (pdftotxt included) and pdftohtml are available for apt-get or synaptic. Therefore surely also in Debian, and probably in many other distributions.