Everett Hertenstein wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 TW>> I also dislike PDF anyhow as it is a bloated format and even when
 TW>> you download the Document is is frustratingly slow to browse
 TW>> through.

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 RJT> I saw *something* at some point in the not-too-distant past (few
 RJT> months?) that said as to how you could convert these to some other
 RJT> format.  A few that I've accumulated recently are absurdly large, 
 RJT> up to maybe half a meg for _a data sheet_ for one chip!  If I can
 RJT> find that info I'll have a go at doing that on some number of the
 RJT> files here.

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

I can offer this suggestion,  if it's something on the 'net:  Search for it
with google,  and then use the "view as HTML" option,  which gets
you something you can strip codes out of.  I don't know how images would
come through this process,  but for files that are mostly text,  it works
pretty good for me.  You'd have to save it while viewing,  and also the
same with any images that were a part of it,  but it's better than nothing.

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