[OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

2001-07-10 Thread Jesper Holmberg
I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and occasionally print them, using xpdf, but now I need to cut

Re: [OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

2001-07-10 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and occasionally print them, using xpdf, but now I need to cut

Re: [OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

2001-07-10 Thread Hall Stevenson
I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and occasionally print them, using xpdf, but now I need to cut

Re: [OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

2001-07-10 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 10:00 a.m. 10/07/01 -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: I might be making a fool of myself by asking this, but is there any way of extracting information such as text and pictures out of a PDF file that anyone knows of? So far I haven't used PDF files to other things than view them, and

Re: [OT] Extraction of info from PDF file

2001-07-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Pietro Cagnoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i often use pdftotext, it works great (xpdf package). pdftopbm should help you with images, but i never tried it. Or pdfimages, same package. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! I live the way I type; fast, with a lot of