Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:03:16 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reading PDFs on the command line (with misc/lesspipe) Message-ID: <20160629140316.6b0e9b4a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <wu7d1n01auj.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20160629132633.106636d7@archlinux.localdomain> <wu7d1n01auj.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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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. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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