On 6/16/05, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
  This linux box has a text-only display, so I
can't display pdfs
 on-screen. In theory I could run ghostscript to print them on my LW2 
 xpdf claims to have a utility to convert pdf to plain text.  If memory
 serves me correctly, almost all of the dependencies disappear if you
 build it from source without X being present on your system. 
Considering that most of the PDF's that Tony would probably be interested
in (stuff on bitsavers, and schematics) aren't likely to have much
useful text content, that's probably not too helpful.
Pat
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