>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Jermey <[email protected]> writes:

Jon> OK, I've Googled this one till my brain hurts and got
Jon> nothing... time to seek the higher wisdom.

Jon> I get large PDF files from publishers to index, which I do by
Jon> running them through a few bash scripts and then working with the
Jon> printed output. I have found a way to do everything via bash, but
Jon> lately the file sizes are getting bigger and bigger (the latest
Jon> was over 500Mb!)  and it takes forever to open and print these --
Jon> not to mention paging through them if I need to find something.

If you only want the text you can convert the PDF to plain ASCII using
pdftotext from the poppler-utils suite.

PeterC
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