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I wrote:
> ps2txt ?  but I'm not sure which package it comes in :-(
> It doesn't seem to be in (debian) psutils ...

and Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> There's also pdftohtml and pdftotext.

ps2txt is part of the (debian) package ghostscript
and pdftohtml and pdftotext are part of poppler-utils

Interestingly, ps2txt and pdftotext both makes mistakes,
but they often make different mistakes in the same place ....

Peter Billam

http://www.pjb.com.au      pj@pjb.com.au     (03) 6278 9410
"Follow the charge, not the particle."  --  Richard Feynman
 from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949