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by: vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:53 UTC

I seem to recall 'strings -4' worked and there was a DOS version of strings

THen there is a DOS AntiWord but I can't find a DOS PDFTOTEXT

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by: ctosian - Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:07 UTC

There is XPDF , has some tools for MSDOS (eg PDFTOTEXT)

"Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-
file. If text-file is not specified, pdftotext converts file.pdf to
file.txt. If text-file is '-', the text is sent to stdout."

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/xpdf/

HTH

Chris

On Friday, 16 June 2023 at 19:53:10 UTC+1, vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> I seem to recall 'strings -4' worked and there was a DOS version of strings
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> THen there is a DOS AntiWord but I can't find a DOS PDFTOTEXT
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> Vasos Panagiotopoulos panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
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Subject	Author
DOC or PDF to TXT	vjp2.at
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DOC or PDF to TXT	vjp2.at