[PLUG] scanning pdfs for viruses

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Jan 9 13:49:57 UTC 2011


On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, Daniel Hedlund wrote:

> I'm not sure I'd worry too much if you keep your system up to date and are
> using a reader such as evince or okular.

   xpdf works well except for the newest adobe pdf version.

> 2. You could use a command like 'pdftotext' or 'pdftohtml' to extract
> the meat of the content.

   This works only when the pdf has been generated from a text creating
application and not from a scanned document.

Rich



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