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- 1 pdftotext
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- pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text con-
- verter
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- pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]
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- Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to
- plain text.
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- Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text
- file, text-file. If text-file is not specified, pdftotext
- converts file.pdf to file.txt. If text-file is '-', the
- text is sent to stdout.
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- 2 OPTIONS
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- -fnumber
- Specifies the first page to convert.
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- -lnumber
- Specifies the last page to convert.
-
- -ascii7
- Convert the text to 7-bit ASCII; the default is to
- use the 8-bit ISO Latin-1 character set.
-
- -h Print usage information. (-help is equivalent.)
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- 2 BUGS
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- This is a beta release of pdftotext, and there are still a
- bunch of PDF features which I have yet to implement.
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- 2 AUTHOR
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- The pdftotext software and documentation are copyright
- 1996-1998 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@aimnet.com).
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- 2 SEE_ALSO
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- xpdf(1), pdftops(1)
- http://www.aimnet.com/~derekn/xpdf/
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