[Wylug-help] pdftotext on Fedora Core 2

[Andreas Erbe]

Hi

> I need a command-line pdf to plain text converter to run on a FC2 server.
> On my workstation, which is Debian, the pdftotext program comes as part
> of the xpdf-utils package.  However, I can't find a similar package in
> RPM format, and I don't want to install the whole of xpdf.
>
> I've also got the source with apt-get source, but I can't see how to just
> compile the pdftotext program rather than the whole of xpdf.
>
> Any ideas where I might get such a converter? (or a pointer to the
> pdftotext source?)

ps2ascii, which comes with ghostscript, also works with pdf files as input. 

Not sure if that helps, 

Andreas.