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    Geoffrey> I thing your problem will be that it outputs to a file,
    Geoffrey> not standard out.  I tried pdftotext < foo.pdf but it
    Geoffrey> didn't like that.  Poor programming...

Many old-school-style things will write to stdout (or read from stdin)
when given "-" as a file name.  The copy of pdftotext I've got lying
around seems to handle this fine, so just use:

pdftotext foo.pdf -

-- 
Fletch                | "If you find my answers frightening,       __`'/|
fletch at phydeaux.org   |  Vincent, you should cease askin'          \ o.O'
                      |  scary questions." -- Jules                =(___)=
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