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For a one-off use, writing code (and finding a coder) might be overkill. I have been impressed by the results produced by http://www.pdftoword.com, which would render to Word or RTF from extremely weird pdf formatting. You should be able to safely convert from there.

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Thanks for the link. I agree with you there. I was thinking maybe a general PDF-to-MediaWiki/PBWiki script might be of use for this and other projects.

There's an open government hackathon this week at PyCon here in Chicago and it looks like at least three of the proposed ideas are PDF-to-Text apps.

http://feedback.sunlightfoundation.com/hackathon/

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