pdftotext binary

[Erik Trulsson]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:26:45PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Rodney Phillips wrote:
> 
> >I am using PowWeb for my hosting.  They are using 
> >FreeBSD Unix 5.13 for their systems.
> > 
> >
> 
> Hmm, really?  The last 5.X release was 5.4, and 6.0 is
> on the way, so I doubt FreeBSD will ever reach 5.13 -
> and, if it does, it'll likely be in 2008-2009 or so.  You
> might want to ask for clarification on this.
> 
> >
> >I need pdftotext binaries to upload to their server.
> >
> >Can anyone point me to these binaries?
> > 
> >
> 
> 
> Perhaps Google.  Or someone else.  I can find no
> "pdftotext" in the ports tree (about 10000
> programs there).  I might suggest xpdf as an
> alternative, but I only assume it does ASCII, as
> I've not used the port:
> 
> Port:   xpdf-3.00_6
> Path:   /usr/ports/graphics/xpdf
> Info:   Display PDF files, and convert them to other formats
> Maint:  nork at FreeBSD.org
> B-deps: autoconf-2.59_2 expat-1.95.8_3 fontconfig-2.2.3,1
> freetype2-2.1.9 gettext-0.14.5 gmake-3.80_2 imake-6.8.2 libiconv-1.9.2_1 
> m4-1.4.
> 3 open-motif-2.2.3_2 perl-5.8.6_2 pkgconfig-0.17.2 t1lib-5.0.1,1 
> xorg-libraries-6.8.2
> R-deps: expat-1.95.8_3 fontconfig-2.2.3,1 freetype2-2.1.9 gsfonts-8.11_2 
> imake-6.8.2
> open-motif-2.2.3_2 perl-5.8.6_2 pkgconfig-0.17.2 t1lib-5.0.1,1 
> xorg-libraries-6.8.2
> WWW:    http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

'pdftotext' is part of xpdf, so installing graphics/xpdf either as a package
or as a ports will get you a pdftotext binary.



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Erik Trulsson
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