Re: PDF -->> RTF

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

 Date:  Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:38:01 -1000
 To:  HWG Techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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On 8 Aug 2003, at 15:23, Brian V Bonini wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 14:38, David Jones wrote:
> > On 7 Aug 2003, at 20:04, Mike Hopkins wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know of a good FREE utility to convert
> > > PDFs to RTF or DOC format?
> > 
> > I don't know if there is such a thing, but you can check
> > at the PDFZone <http://www.pdfzone.com> and search for
> > something like "convert PDF to RTF free" and see what
> > you get. I just tried it and they listed 300 hits ...
> > 
> 
> There's a *NIX utility to convert to plain text if your
> not looking to retain the formating....

Plenty can do that, including GSView and a number of 
others. For that matter, you could open the PDF in 
Acrobat, copy and paste, if all that's needed is the text. 
But Mike was looking to convert to RTF or Word doc 
format ... I don't know of any free utilities that do that 
conversion.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
 

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