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Not a URL but arguably more useful: $ curl http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf | pdftotext - - Don't forget the two dashes, as it doesn't defa
by lloeki 14y ago
Not a URL but arguably more useful:
$ curl http://www.nickbostrom.com/extraterrestrial.pdf | pdftotext - -
Don't forget the two dashes, as it doesn't default to reading stdin, and doesn't default to writing to stdout when instructed to read from stdin.
Also, pdftotext is part of poppler in Arch and poppler-utils in Debian.
- rpm4321 14y agoEmbarrassingly enough, I'm a Python dev on Win7 - now you know why I'm so paranoid. :) Thanks anyway, though.