{"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":"

I’ve been doing a little research recently on tools that can convert a PDF into an ASCII file. I’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

Here are some links to some tools or code libraries that look promising:<\/p>\n

BCL Technologies<\/a>
\nXpdfText<\/a>
\nPDF2TXT<\/a>
\nVeryPDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been doing a little research recently on tools that can convert a PDF into an ASCII file. I’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 […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t