Wolfgang wrote:
> >does anybody know how I can extract the *complete* text from a PDF
> >file from the Adobe Acrobat reader under W98?
>
>There are 2 ways for converting PDF to TXT locally:
(snip)
>2. An even better solution (regarding program size and conversion
> quality) is the programm "pdftotext" which is part of the
> XPDF-package (a freeware PDF viewer for several operating
> systems).
Ah, but Christof already has this (but you couldn't have known this).
> DOS: ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip
> (1298148 bytes) and
FWIW 0.91 is out
> NOTE: While the Win32 version of "pdftotext.exe" is more
> compact than the DOS version (which contains additional DOS
> extender code),
Perhaps it's stripped of debug information? Doing this on the pdftotex.exe
file really gets it smaller.
> it does not work with the widespread DOS
> version of "gzip.exe" as it needs gzip with long file name
> support.
Correct, gunzip386 can be downloaded from either the official homepage, or
as an APM for Arachne on the main Arachne page (XPDF 0.91 also has an APM
there).
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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