i need open source material on extracting text from pdf.
thanks
here is sa java one http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
Hello!
You will find it on
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/Easy-PDF-Text-Converter.shtml
Yoav
Here are other options, mostly taken from Sourceforge.net (some projects may still be under development):
PDFBox - Java
JPedal - Java
PDFAPIx - Perl
CCP - pdf to postscript
What about Adobe Reader?
it's free for home use and it has it's updates.
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In linux, you have pdftotext, provided with the free xpdf package:
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