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From: Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC
Date: May 19, 2005 4:22PM

Wayne,

1. Have you ever used the online conversation tools for Adobe
PDF documents
(http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html) ? I
don't know if that will meet your immediate needs.

2. Are you using the latest version of PDFtoHTML
(http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/)?

3. I also have previously used Ghostscript to extract the plain
text. While looking for the latest version I came across "PSTOTEXT"
(http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.htmlhttp://researc
h.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html) which actually may be of
more use to you.

4. Finally, I just came across PDF995
(http://www.pdf995.com/faq.html) which seems to indicate it will output
PDF to HTML - I'm guessing that would be the best option yet. Seems like
it is only 19.00 or so.

Hope that helps.

Regards,


Norman Robinson