>might help. or you could use that dreaded command line ;-) (or some
>ghostscript GUI) and convert pdf -> text or pdf -> ps -> text.
>
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/manual.htm#ps2ascii
>http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_ps2ascii.htm
>http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm
>
>also, i think you may be able to use the text selection tool in acrobat
>reader to select, copy and paste just the text.
I can export text from Acrobat (not the reader, the full Acrobat). But it's still messy, filled with weird line breaks and discretionary hyphens. I can't stand poorly formatted stuff, and fixing a long article takes some time, so, sorry, I'm just not gonna do it.
Doug