Re: a good pdf-to-text converter? [Re: POSIX 2008 available

[Ben Pfaff]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> Do any of you know of a pdf-to-text converter that is better than
> pdftotxt?  pdftotxt does not preserve line breaks, table formatting,
> displayed code, etc.  Even the official .txt version of the previous
> release of POSIX had many conversion-artifact errors.

xpdf comes with a program named pdftotext that has an option to
preserve layout.  I haven't used it on the POSIX spec but I've
used it successfully with ISO C99 and other specifications.

For POSIX, I just read it in a web browser.
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