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hey friends, I can export the openoffice writer files to pdf but how do I convert the pdf files to openoffice writer files. Is there any utility on centos or on linux which can convert pdf to openoffice files. I am using centos4.0 Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

In an R script I need to extract some figures from many web pages in pdf format. As an example see http://www.terna.it/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TTQuOPUf%2fs0%3d&tabid=435&mid=3072 from which I would like to extract the "Totale: 1,025,823"). Is there any solution? Ciao Vittorio

All, Is anyone familiar with a way to use R to read table data from a large collection of PDF files? I'm aware there are various command lines and desktop utilities that might be able to (e.g.,) dump PDFs to text, which could then be parsed for table data. But I'm hoping there is something more integrated that could be incorporated into R functions and scripts to handle large batches of

I am using ferret right now, and it works great for all my regular text documents/information. My problem arises when I want to index/search all of our assets (mostly pdf files). Currently, there is no way to READ pdfs from Ruby. Because of this I have to resort to using Java to read the PDF''s and then Lucene to index them. My problem here is a couple things. One, to index a asset I have