PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine. It's the easy way of creating PDFs out of common software Like Word, StarCalc and every other Windows Application that uses the Windows Printers.
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Viewer for PDF files for unix and windows. Includes PDF text extractr. This text extractor works much better than pdftotext above. It also can make basic html documents. It can keep text order, which means if your page has 2 columns, the text for col 1 will appear first, then for col 2.
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