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IntroductionThis collection of freeware tools can convert to and from various document formats. These formats include PDF, PostScript, HTML, ASCII text, UNIX text files and DOS text files. This collection also includes tools to extract information from PDF files such as images, Pixmaps, fonts and PDF document information.The software is simple to install just download and run the installer. The tools, help files and directory paths are setup automatically. This collection also includes the Octopus for batch processing. The Octopus can be used to apply a specified command to a list of files and/or sub-directories. This tool is useful to convert mutiple files in different locations. For example to convert text files from Unix to DOS format, you can use the Octopus as follows: octopus -r "*.txt" -c "unix2dos %file%" The above command will recurse down the current directory converting all files with the extension ".txt" to DOS format. ManifestThe following is a list of tools included in the collection. It is here for your reference. Some formats are not included at the moment but will be available soon.pdffonts - Extracts fonts from a PDF file pdfimages - Extracts images from a PDF file pdfinfo - Extracts document information from a PDF file pdftohtml - Converts PDF to HTML pdftoppm - Converts PDF to Pixmap pdftops - Converts PDF to Postscript pdftotext - Converts PDF to ASCII text unix2dos - Converts text files from UNIX to DOS format and vice-versa octopus - Batch processing tool |
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