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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: Reading PDFs on the command line (with misc/lesspipe)
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 18:41:08 +0700, Olivier wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:29:45 +0200, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote:
> >>  $ less some.pdf
> >
> > http://www.manualpages.de/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-ports-9.0-RELEASE/man1/pdftotext.1.html
> > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41362/view-pdf-file-in-terminal
> >
> > I wonder how it is handled assumed "some.pdf" is just a scanned picture
> > of text converted to pdf ;).
> 
> /usr/local/libexec/xpdf/pdfimages is installed by default by package
> xpdf.

And then use ImageMagick to convert it to ASCII art. :-)



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