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Re: [LUG] PDFs

 

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:48:56AM +0000, Neil Stone wrote:
> tom wrote:
> >rm -rf `find / -type f -name *.pdf`
> >is the best thing to do - you may wish to convert them to a more
> >useful form before this
> >Tom te tom te tom
> >
> 
> Well.. that's not very GUI is it ?? I would like to be able to add
> new pages, rotate pages, remove other pages, edit test.. you know,
> the whole 9 yards..
> 
No but that and Gordon's response made me smile

Non gui: try pdftk

Although I did once use tesseract to scan a pdf to text. I can't
remember the command though


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