-=> JASEN BETTS wrote to EVERETT HERTENSTEIN <=-

 JB> Hi Everett.

 EH> If you or anyone else comes up with an easy method for converting PDF
 EH> format to
 EH> plain old ASCII text, I sure would like to know about it

 JB> ghostscript, also pdf2ascii.

 JB> they'll only convert the text part. any diagrams, or images will be
 JB> lost as will much of the layout.

pdftotext (part of xpdf) can preserve the layout.  You still lose the
graphics, etc., though.



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