looking for a package?

looking for a package?

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello list,
Does someone know of a pakcage that will allow me to convert pdf and .doc files to txt?
Also, html to txt conversions would be nice to.
Thanks,
~~TheCreator~~
website:
http://tysplace.shaned.net
msn:
compgeek134@hotmail.com
aim:
st8amnd2005
skype:
st8amnd127
moo coder/wizard and administrator

Re: looking for a package?

[Alex Snow]

for pdf files there's xpdf's pdftotext.  just install xpdf and you 
should get it.  my only complaint is it pretty much murders any 
formatting in the pdf file.  I've found myself liking the feature in 
acrobat reader under windows to get better formatted text output.
On 
Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:04:48PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Hello list,
> Does someone know of a pakcage that will allow me to convert pdf and .doc files to txt?
> Also, html to txt conversions would be nice to.
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
> website:
> http://tysplace.shaned.net
> msn:
> compgeek134@hotmail.com
> aim:
> st8amnd2005
> skype:
> st8amnd127
> moo coder/wizard and administrator
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: looking for a package?

[Gregory Nowak]

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For doc to txt, catdoc, and antiword are your choices, though antiword
seems to be more advanced then catdoc. On the other hand, catdoc seems
to be able to deal with xls files, whereas antiword doesn't seem to be
able to deal with them. So, the best of both worlds is to do what I
did, and install both.

As for html to txt, hitting p when on a page in lynx the cat will let
you save the page as a txt file, and I suspect elinks, links the
chain, and whatever else there is for the text console will let you do
this as well. Hth.

Greg


On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:04:48PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> Hello list,
> Does someone know of a pakcage that will allow me to convert pdf and .doc files to txt?
> Also, html to txt conversions would be nice to.
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
> website:
> http://tysplace.shaned.net
> msn:
> compgeek134@hotmail.com
> aim:
> st8amnd2005
> skype:
> st8amnd127
> moo coder/wizard and administrator
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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Re: looking for a package?

[Sean McMahon]

Is xpdf a x-windows package?  also in response to another question about .doc 
files, antiword.
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Subject: Re: looking for a package?


> for pdf files there's xpdf's pdftotext.  just install xpdf and you
> should get it.  my only complaint is it pretty much murders any
> formatting in the pdf file.  I've found myself liking the feature in
> acrobat reader under windows to get better formatted text output.
> On
> Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:04:48PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> Does someone know of a pakcage that will allow me to convert pdf and .doc 
>> files to txt?
>> Also, html to txt conversions would be nice to.
>> Thanks,
>> ~~TheCreator~~
>> website:
>> http://tysplace.shaned.net
>> msn:
>> compgeek134@hotmail.com
>> aim:
>> st8amnd2005
>> skype:
>> st8amnd127
>> moo coder/wizard and administrator
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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> Not me, guy.  I read the Bash man page each day like a Jehovah's Witness reads
> the Bible.  No wait, the Bash man page IS the bible.  Excuse me...
> -- More on confusing aliases, taken from comp.os.linux.misc
>
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