Chris Hodges wrote:
Huge wrote:

A Google for "pdf2txt" or "pdf2text" would be informative. There are a
number of programs about that do exactly what you want.


The first few hits (when I tried it) respect the security options though.
The patch to xpdf/pdf2txt took me 2 min to write - having never seen the
source before.

I find though that I haven't saved it.