http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext might help.




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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Quinion
Sent: 01 December 2008 17:00
To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Request for UK address lists for postcode extraction

Andy Robinson wrote:
> Brian Quinion wrote:
>>I just need some test data that I didn't write to make sure I'm not
>>making silly assumptions! :-)
> This any use?
>
> "http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=40870&CONTENT_
> ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=13170"

That seems suitably horrible, although I'd not considered writing
anything to parse the data out of PDFs.  I guess I've got some extra
work to do...

Cheers,
--
 Brian

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