Re: PDF file translation

Will Honea schrieb:
Can anyone suggest an app that will extract a PDF (acrobat) file to plain
text? I have a bunch of bank statements in .pdf format and I'd like to
extract the numbers from them to put into database. The Acrobat "save to
text" yields garbage - probably due to the table format used.


You may want to try pdftotext (comes with oss10.3) or alternatively pdf2txt, a shell script downloadable from

http://www.comp.eonworks.com/scripts/scripts.html

-never used it myself but hopefully it works for you.

wilbert
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