From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2009-08-23T19:19:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing pdf files

Dear Arun,

there is a command-line tool pdftotext, which you can use with encoding specifications and also with a "-layout" option, which will preserve
line breaks.
The list of possible encodings  

pdftotext -listenc

does not include iscii-1988, so probably, you'll be out of luck
if the original document is not in Unicode (maybe you can use iconv
on the result of pdftotext).

I found a utf-8 encoded web page in Hindi, printed it to a pdf file, used
pdftotext on it, and opened it in the SciTE editor, specifying the
encoding as UTF-8. Most of the symbols are recognized correctly,
but some are not ...(vowels? combinations of letters?) 

I'm sending the screenshot as an attachment to your email address.

Best regards,

Axel 
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