Martin McCormick wrote: > I have a PDF document that does have embedded ASCII text in it. > I need to use the file on a Debian system so I hope I am > just using a2ps and pstotext wrong. Don't do that! Use pdftotext instead. On my distribution, ArchLinux, pdftotext is provided by the "poppler" package. I don't know which package you need for Debian. Perhaps it's in xpdf. One thing you'll notice when converting PDF to plain text is that certain two-letter combinations are replaced with UTF-8-encoded Unicode characters. Only the gods know why. Common examples are fi, fl, and ff. Of course, most screenreaders won't render those correctly. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list