Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> writes: > On 01/06/2011 05:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to convert a couple of pdf-documents, which >> are of test and "ASCIIbased tables", to pure text >> (ASCII, vim-editable ;) ). >> >> What tool/s are worth being tried out for this task? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > pdftotext might help. Comes with app-text/poppler.
If the output looks messed up, don't give up, first see the manpage, there are some switches that may result in a better output. I think using -layout will help you with the tables. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
