Re: lynx-dev Converting PDF to text (was Re: Is Lynx still practical?)

[David Woolley]

> 
>       It should be possible to retrieve a PDF document if there
> is ASCII text in it to begin with.  The pdf standard allows ASCII

Adobe have released some free accessibility tools recently that attempt
to do just this (preumably using similar logic to the cut and paste
code in Acrobat reader).  They also have a free HTML gateway based on
similar principles.  I've not looked at them in any detail.

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