Convert PDF to Text?

[linuxmaillists at charter.net]

On Sunday 22 April 2007, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> On Sunday 22 April 2007, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > --- linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> > > On Sunday 22 April 2007, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> > > > kwrite from koffice can read and edit .pdf  files
> > >
> > > (quite
> > >
> > > > well), so you should be able to save it as plain
> > >
> > > text. I
> > >
> > > > guess that with dcop you can make a script to do
> > >
> > > this
> > >
> > > > with multiple files for you.
> > >
> > > Is there some specific way to open a PDF file with
> > > Kwrite?
> > >
> > > I tried this but it gives a warning that the file is
> > > binary
> > > and saving it will corrupt the file. The file opens
> > > but it
> > > is binary code that I have no idea how to convert to
> > > plain
> > > text even if I copied some of it to another file.
> >
> > Kword not kwrite.  Kwrite is for text files.  kword
> > will/should do the job.
>
> Kword won't even open the file because it does not
> recognize or support the format.

I will cover my own post. It has to be imported and then it 
works very nicely. Very cool!

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