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

[Jim Meyering]

Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Ah ha!  I'd used pdftotext (and tried to spell its name above)
but hadn't noticed the -layout option.  It does just what I wanted.

Thanks, Ben.