PDFTextStream Free for Academic Use

blog.snowtide.com — PDFTextStream is now free for academic use, looks like that's right now! It's a library to extract text from PDF files, it works with Java, .Net, and Python. They seem pretty serious about it, too: the application is short and to the point, they go so far as to specify that university IT staff would be eligible. From my reading, any academic use is Oct 12, 2006 View in Crawl 4