Dear Venky
You can try one way though.. there is a freeware called "Ghostscript".
you can download it. After you install it, open the PDF file in the
software. GO to the options menu and there is a option for converting the
PDF file to text format. It also saves it in the text format and gives it
to you.
I have the package and can send it to you if you are not able to get it
on the web
bye
jakku
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tvenkatesh at synapticcorp.com <Tvenkatesh at synapticcorp.com>
To: bionet.software mail newsgroup <bionet-news at dl.ac.uk>
Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 2:30 AM
Subject: software for reading sequence from PDF file
>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
>Senior Scientist (Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology)
>Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corporation
>215 College Road
>Paramus NJ 07652 - 1431
>201-261-1331x720 (Phone)
>201-261-0623(Fax)
>Tvenkatesh at synapticcorp.com>>>
