A little off-topic, but since many here deal with converting PDF to other 
formats, thought I'd start here.

I haven't been that happy with the xpdf package. It fails to convert some PDF 
files legibly (using pdftotext), and support is a one-man show (always risky, imho).

I have had more success with the ps2ascii tool from Ghostscript and I wonder 
what others have found.

consider this a PDF tool survey...

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