If you have access to a UNIX or Linux machine you can use
pdftops which is part of the xpdf program as of version 0.7
(see http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/). Another option is the
ghostscript package ( pdf2ps | ps2ascii ). There are some
patches to allow these programs to deal with compression and
encryption as well.
-Alan
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.
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Alan Williams (finger alan at avocado.ucr.edu for pgp public key)
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University of California, Riverside "Where observation is concerned,
Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences chance favors the prepared mind."
Alan at Avocado.UCR.edu -- Louis Pasteur
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