Re: [orca-list] Converting pdf documents to text

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Yes, as others have mentioned the first and fastest convertion I know of is with pdftotext, but at times the 
output is not that clean with words run 
together, or some extranious characters that make for a less than satisfactory reading experience in the 
worst cases. Most documents are handled very 
well in my experience however. There is a program called calibre that has a suite of scripts included for 
converting between various document formats 
called ebook-convert. 
Calibre itself is not accessible, but the ebook convertion scripts can be run on the commandline and have 
given me clean output when pdftotext has 
failed to do so. 
For the record, pdftotext is part of poppler-utils, which has other convertion scripts in it. 
Vinux has a handy little script that directly opens pdf files as text in gedit, so you could put this on your 
ubuntu machine. It uses the same poppler 
-utils pdftotext backend that has been mentioned by everyone, but it is convenient as you just open the pdf 
directly from your file manager.
    

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     B.H.
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  Vojtěch Šmiro wrote:
Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 10:04:46AM +0200

>    Hello.
>
>    How can I convert pdf to txt files in Linux? I still use Ubuntu 14.04.
>
>    Thanks for your help.
>
>    Best regards
>
>    Vojta.

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