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<717801BBC100D211B89500805F6FAD93047D56 at snap01.synapticcorp.com>,
Tvenkatesh at synapticcorp.com wrote:
> I would like to know if there is software that can convert PDF file into
> text files.
> Specifically we want to extract sequences from patent documents which are
> stored as images in PDF
> format. We tried Acorobat reader, it did not help.
> I appreciate your help.
> Thanks
> Venky
> ___________________________
> T. V. (Venky) Venkatesh, Ph D
If you have Perl on your machine (and why not?) then
check out;
http://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/tool_pdf2txt.html
for a Perl script for that purpose.
I have yet to try it but I hope this is helpful for you.
Bernard
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Bernard P. Murray, PhD
Dept. Cell. Mol. Pharmacol., UCSF, San Francisco, USA
