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Kirk Reiser writes:
> What happens when you run pdftotext on the file?

$ pstotext  BCD996XT_v1.04.00_Protocol.pdf

< BCD996XT Operation Specification >
200
GPL Ghostscript GPL Ghostscript 8.628.62: : Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
7.13. REMOTE

I think that 7.13.remote is some stray text that got outputted
from the file before pstotext exploded.

	The output would have gone to standard output had it
worked.

Martin