>               above, I wanted the other day to extract email addresses from a pdf 
> file.  
> No cut-and-paste with  KGhostView or  XPDF!

...and neither with gv. This Linux thing sucks ey, but I like it anyway.

Not worth for just a few words, but pdftotext, or pdf2ps |
{pstotext,ps2text} are a possibility, but not noted for their elegance.
Of course, anything will fail if the pdf just contains a bitmap image from
a flatbed scanner.

Volker

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