Re: [Corpora-List] PDF Conversion

From: radev@umich.edu
Date: Tue Mar 28 2006 - 21:15:35 MET DST

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My student Alex C de Baca recommended this software:

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/index.html
http://www.bluem.net/downloads/pdftotext_en/

Ken Litkowski wrote:
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> Is anyone aware of free software that will process PDF documents into
> text streams? There is a PDF2HTML (with an XML option) that will create
> page-centric versions, but this does not really distinguish text from
> format. I want to ignore (or be able to treat separately) such things
> as headers, footnotes, tables, figures, and equations. (Note that even
> Google retains the page-centric view.)
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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