I'm trying to find a way to convert PDFs to text because something is really funky with the PDFs I need from my teacher's web page for Computer Organization. Acrobat Reader crashed my computer trying to read the PDFs the first time, so I've upgraded to the newest version. It hasn't crashed again yet, but both times Acrobat Reader hasn't let me select the text in the document. Anyway, I'll post what I find, and I'd be thankful if anyone has any resources they can point me to.
Adobe recommends checking out PDFZone.com, and Planet PDF. Adobe also has online conversion tools that will convert a PDF to html for the benefit of disabled users, but their tools don't work on the files.
Ok, GSView was able to display the file, but it also wasn't able to extract the text. There's Jade, but that costs 200 dollars.
You know, for some reason the "text" of this PDF might be a graphic. I don't know why my professor would make it a graphic, but it just might be. Anyway, time to type it 
Yeah, it is an image... gaaay. I checked the source of the PDF and none of the text is there.
Sunday, February 3, 2002
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