Re: [Sheflug] Convert JPEG to Acsii

[John Southern <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

On Sunday 18 November 2007 18:24:48 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Well, (more info) I've used pdf2html to convert a PDF of some pages
> that I have written for a magazine.  This has produced JPEGs of the
> pages that are linked to an HTML page.

Do you still have access to the pdf files?

> I'd like to extract the text from the JPEGs of the pages so that I
> don't have to completely re-write all of it.

It might be easier to use one of the pdf-to-text tools if the pdf supports it 
(Some pdf files are locked to prevent editing).
A quick look at something like Tux magazine May 2005 opened in Adobe Reader, 
lets me select text and yank.
I can them paste this into any text editor and then manipulate it at leisure.

Xpdf has a similar tool called pdftotext.

If the file is locked you cold try opening in gsview and saving as a nother 
file but without the restrictions or try printing to a file.
pdftops and then back again using pstopdf

John




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