Hi All

Is there any pdf viewer in text(console) mode (not in Xwindows)??
Just like lynx is there for web page viewing perpose..
Thanx for any assistance

Regards

guruteck@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there any pdf viewer in text(console) mode (not in Xwindows)??
> Just like lynx is there for web page viewing perpose..
> Thanx for any assistance

There is pdftotext which is part of the xpdf slackare package. Example of
usage:

pdftotext file.pdf -

Unless you give a "-" as the last argument it will not print anything to
stdout. Instead it will write to "file.txt" if you only do:

pdftotext file.pdf

regards Henrik
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