Render a PDF as text

Description

PdfRenderer plugin renders an application/pdf attachment as text using pdftotext. Probably much more/better could be done here, but i'm calling it quits for now.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for PdfRendererPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from here.

Source

You can check out PdfRendererPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Install

Prerequisites

pdftotext must be installed. See http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html for a Window port.

Example

Enabled the plugin and browse to a pdf attachment

[components]
pdfrendererplugin.* = enabled

Recent Changes

[5681] by k0s on 05/06/09 21:52:35

initial import

[5680] by k0s on 05/06/09 21:52:09

New hack PdfRendererPlugin, created by k0s

Author/Contributors

Author: k0s
Maintainer: iclemartin
Contributors: