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| From | ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.os.linux.alt.os.linux.debian |
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| Date | 2016-03-07 02:23 -0600 |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
> > Is there a text-based PDF (view/read)er for command line in Linux
> > (Debian stable [Jessie])'s terminals like text based web browsers (Lynx,
> > w3m, eLinks, etc.)? I also don't mean a PDF converter too. I tried
> > "less" command that people suggested online, but it shows unreadable
> > garbages and XML codes. :(
> pdftotext
> part of the poppler-utils package
> Not exactly a viewer, but will serve the purpose:
> pdftotext foo.pdf - | less
> Also pdftohtml can be used:
> pdftohtml -noframes foo.pdf foo.html
> lynx foo.html
> (pdftohtml is also part of the poppler-utils package)
Interesting. Less command by itself wouldn't work correctly,
but with pdftotext, it did work. Actually, this trick is good enough for
me. Thanks! :)
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