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Re: Viewing PDFs as text?
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: Viewing PDFs as text? |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:43:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Alan <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:
> Less (via lesspipe, I think) is able to read pdf files as text, using
> pdftotext. It would be much easier for me to browse pdfs using emacs.
>
> I would like to do this from dired.
! pdftotext ? - RET
will show the text in a new buffer.
> There is a doc-view.el facility, that seems too complicated for me.
It's not complicated. Just hit v on the file in dired. But doc-view.el
works only if you run an x11 emacs.
Bye,
Tassilo
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- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, (continued)
- Emacs 23 and msb.el, Guy Durrieu, 2008/03/13
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- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Roland Winkler, 2008/03/12
- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Roland Winkler, 2008/03/18
- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Tassilo Horn, 2008/03/19
- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Roland Winkler, 2008/03/19
- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Tassilo Horn, 2008/03/19
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- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Roland Winkler, 2008/03/19
- Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Tassilo Horn, 2008/03/20
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Re: Viewing PDFs as text?, Tim X, 2008/03/11