[senit] converting PDF files

You can actually cut and paste text from pdf files (e.g into MS Word) but

On 10/01/2008, Claire Barnes <clairebarnes at willowdeneschool.co.uk> wrote:
> You can actually cut and paste text from pdf files (e.g into MS Word) but
> you lose all formatting and usually all the diagrams.

Depending on the fonts used in the PDF I've found you often end up
with unusable text.

Gmail has an option to display PDF attachements, but it doesn't work
if there are images.

Perhaps Acrobat has options to manipulate the accessibility features
available in newer PDF formats but that's an expensive solution and
theres loads of free converters.

The pdftotext part of XPDF is available for windows (here
ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-3.02pl2-win32.zip) and as it's
command line should be good for batch operations.

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