On 12Aug2011 12:09, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On 12/08/11 12:04, Genes MailLists wrote: | > On 08/12/2011 11:58 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: | >> On 12/08/11 11:22, Genes MailLists wrote: | >>> On 08/12/2011 11:16 AM, Madhav Ancha wrote: | >>> You could try this fedora app: pdftotext | >>> | >> As can be seen I tried several combinations, thought perhaps it | >> couldn't handle the file nam in quotes "Couier etc" but nothing | >> seems to do it? | >> | > Is it possible the PDF contains an image of the text rather than text | > itself ? | | I'm not sure, how would I tell? It's an attachment to an html | cover letter. The Fedora default app, disolays it with no | complaints. Is it ridiculously large for the amount of text? Does it seem to have scanner artifacts in the text - "graininess" if you peer closely, fuzzy text instead of perfectly formed letters (i.e. a picture of text instead of text rendered by your computer from a font)? Personally I use pdftohtml to convert PDFs (then an HTML-to-text pipeline on the end of that). Possibly pdftotext does exactly that anyway. Of course it achieves nothing for me if the PDF is a scan. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Many companies are just now realizing that testing for the year 2000 problems will likely be more time-consuming and expensive than the fix-it phase. - Bob Evans, Information Week, September 1997 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
