Subj : Re: King/Gassner/Shanahan (was: Resume questions, how convey?) To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Daniel Dyer Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 02:05 am On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:18:14 +0100, Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: > > Does anybody know of a free program that does OCR on PDF files and > keeps track of layout so as to convert to reasonable HTML or plain > ASCII? Or if I wrote such a program myself would anyone think it was a > good thing and pay me money for all that effort? Or am I the only > person who thinks that converting a megabyte PDF file to a 30K text > file would be a useful utility? There are various command-line utilities. Search for "pdf2ascii", "pdf2html", "pdftohtml", "pdf2txt" etc. Maybe your shell account already has one of these available. Dan. -- Daniel Dyer http://www.dandyer.co.uk .