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From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject: Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux?
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> > 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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