[Linux] converting PDF to DOC?

[Larry Kagan]

> Yes, with a heavy helping of "good luck".  Here's a full pipeline:
>
> $ wget 'http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/pdfs/man11.pdf' -O - |
>  convert - pnm:- |
>  gocr - |
>  head -20 |
>  tail
>
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Oh look at that... my mother used to read that story to me at bed time. 
;)  I only used this process once recently in a proof-of-concept for an 
application.  My results were about 80% accurate.  The original document 
was faxed in and stored as a tiff.  I then converted the image to pgm 
via convert and then ran it through gocr.  Obviously, your results may vary.

Larry