SUMMARY: Converting a PDF file to text in Solaris 10

OK - converting PDF files to ascii text files within Solaris...

This can easily be done using pdftotext, which ships as part of the xpdf
static linked precompiled binary available from
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

One thing to note - this conversion program can produce a large number
of additional whitespace characters in the resulting file. These can be
cleaned up and removed by compiling and running a quick C program:

-------------begin space.c-------------------

#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
FILE *fp;
int c;
int spaceOn=0;
if (argc < 2)
  exit(1);
fp=fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (!fp)
  exit(1);
while ((c=getc(fp)) != EOF) {
  if (c != ' ') {
    printf("%c", c);
    spaceOn=0;
  }
  else {
    if (spaceOn == 0) {
      printf("%c", c);
      spaceOn=1;
    }
  }
}
}
----------end space.c------------------

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Benjamin J de Mora
UNIX Systems Engineer
Systems Management
SunGard Vivista

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