Hi, If you hav'nt found it by now, it is pdftotext that you are looking for. It uses ghostscript. I had it working as a viewer in pine and lynx before my last upgrade. It works mostly. regards, Willem On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Martin McCormick wrote: > I did not know one could read pdf documents from the > command line in Linux. How is this done? > > There are a lot of pdf viewers out there but I thought > they all used X Windows. > > I would certainly rather have a converter that I am in > control of on the local system. > > I looked for pdf to text in various spellings, but I may > have just not been as imaginative as I should be. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Willem van der Walt Information Services Directorate Department of Health South Africa tel: 27 12 3120700