PDFs and text selection

[Michael Costolo]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:49:19 -0500, Jeff Macdonald
<macfisherman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Do any of the gnome based tools support text select. Acroreader 5
> does, but I was hoping something that's native to Fedora would support
> it to. I just want to be able to copy and past some text.

I'm not sure about Gnome, but the Xpdf package on cygwin comes with
``pdftotext'' which writes all of the text from the pdf file to a new
text file.  This may do the trick for you.

-Mike-