[Wylug-help] pdftotext on Fedora Core 2

[Towle, William]

> 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.

  Searching freshmeat.net for "pdf text"[1] suggests (amongst
others):

1. The direct hit: Xpdf summary[2a] and download page[2b],
which provides sources.

2. pstotext[3] (does both .ps and .pdf - should you want to
check alternatives).

HTH,
  Wills.

URLs:

[1] http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=pdf+text&section=projects

[2a] http://freshmeat.net/projects/xpdf/
[2b] http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html (direct hit)

[3] http://freshmeat.net/projects/pstotext/