After playing with pdftk briefly it looks like it will be
suitable and the man pages provide
links to follow information ( someone have better suggestions?),
pdftk uses a slightly modified iText Java library
(http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) to read and write PDF. The author
compiled this Java library using GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org) so it could be
linked with a front end written in C++.
The pdftk home page is http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/.
AUTHOR
Sid Steward (sstew...@accesspdf.com) maintains pdftk.
I did want to affirm my earlier IIRC comments.
If you go get this document,
wget -O 541.pdf -S -v "http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p541.pdf";
and try to select a column of text, you end up with a column the
width of the whole page making it impossible
to get a single coherent piece of text ( worse than
top posting ). I had a reprint from a science journal and
checked that with same "Reader 9" software you could
select individual columns.
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