Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux?

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On 2016-03-07 09:56, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2016-03-07, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:

> Less simply reads the text, including the formatting commands, etc.
> pdftotext strips out the formatting commands and leaves the text. Of
> course It cannot do anything for pictures, or text in graphics files
> (usually jpeg)

Well, pictures could be represented with an ascii art converter.

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Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-06 02:38 -0600
  Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2016-03-06 07:57 -0600
    Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-07 02:23 -0600
      Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-07 08:56 +0000
        Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-08 19:06 +0100
      Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-08 15:02 +0100
        Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-09 13:04 -0600
  Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-06 14:21 +0000
    Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-03-06 09:49 -0500
    Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-03-06 23:12 +0100
    Re: Text-based PDF (read/view)ers in Linux? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-03-07 07:29 +0200

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