[NFBCS] difficult to read pdf

[Bryan Duarte]

For those who need access to pdf content but do not particularly care about formating can use a utility in Unix and Linux called pdf2text. I wrote a script with this about two years ago to convert pdf documents into text so I could read them and make notes, extract text, etc. I have to read some where around 40 or 50 papers a month which are all pdf and it is much easier to read them in txt rather than pdf. 

The script I wrote will traverse through a specified directory, find all pdf documents, convert them to text using the utility I mentioned, then save them with the same file name in a directory called text. 

Bryan Duarte | software engineer

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