Re: Viewing PDFs as text?

[Tassilo Horn]

Alan <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:

> Less (via lesspipe, I think) is able to read pdf files as text, using
> pdftotext.  It would be much easier for me to browse pdfs using emacs.
>
> I would like to do this from dired.

! pdftotext ? - RET

will show the text in a new buffer.

> There is a doc-view.el facility, that seems too complicated for me.

It's not complicated.  Just hit v on the file in dired.  But doc-view.el
works only if you run an x11 emacs.

Bye,
Tassilo
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