On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:44:53PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:30:42PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 10:57:00AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > are there any utilities that will let me read pdf files and word > > > > documents in console? > > > > > > Dunno about pdf, but package 'catdoc' should help with word documents. > > > > > > > pstotext will handle much pdf stuff. > > pstotext just extracts the text and throws it on screen. the complete > formatting is lost. are there any better utilities?
Did anyone mention pdftotext? It's part of the Xpdf set of tools -- xpdf-utils package. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
