convert pdf into text

hmmmmmmmmmm.
My understanding is that a .pdf file is an image of a postscript printer
file. My experience has been that the only way to convert a .pdf file into a
text file is to use the function for that purpose built into the full adobe
acrobat application. Or to use an OCR program that analyses the .pdf as an
image interprets the image as text. If there is another way of doing this I
would love to know about it, perhaps the experts in the adobe acrobat
newsgroup would be your best place to post this question.

Jeff


"farhanakhan" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hi
> I am developing application when user upload the pdf file then it will
> convert
> into text file and into text folder and pdf save into pdf folder when user
> try
> to search then search will perform from the text file.
>
> tell me what i do...
> thanks
>