pdf2txt

From: B P (nature_boyMYPANTS_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 05:26:17 GMT

Is there a way via Python or even Perl to capture records from a pdf and
     output a delimited text file? My work has a situation with a trunk
load of data forms that were scanned as pdfs.

The data needs to be taken from the forms and moved into a database, so
I figure that comma-delimited format will work fine. The amount of
man-hours it would take to manually do this is very cost-prohibitive for
what we have to work with.

I know that a txt2pdf exists, was checking to see if the opposite would
as well.

BP

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