{"id":17,"date":"2008-03-24T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techclub.leopolus.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-03-24T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T04:35:21","slug":"tools-to-convert-pdf-to-ascii-or-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/tools-to-convert-pdf-to-ascii-or-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools to convert PDF to ASCII or Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a little research recently on tools that can convert a PDF into an ASCII file. I&#8217;ve got all of the old tricks like Ghostscript, Export from Acrobat, print to PS file, etc. The problem with most techniques is that a true ASCII file is never generated where the format of the file on import to an ASCII text program matches the original PDF file layout.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to some tools or code libraries that look promising:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/desktoppub.about.com\/gi\/dynamic\/offsite.htm?zi=1\/XJ&amp;sdn=desktoppub&amp;zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bcltechnologies.com%2Fdocument%2Fproducts%2Fallpdf%2Fallpdf.htm\">BCL Technologies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glyphandcog.com\/XpdfText.html\">XpdfText<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.convert-in.com\/pdf2txt.htm\">PDF2TXT<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verypdf.com\/pdf2txt\/pdf2txt.htm\">VeryPDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a little research recently on tools that can convert a PDF into an ASCII file. I&#8217;ve got all of the old tricks like Ghostscript, Export from Acrobat, print to PS file, etc. The problem with most techniques is that a true ASCII file is never generated where the format of the file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mypctechs.com\/techclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}