pdftotext
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 27 Nov 1998
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NAME
pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter
(version 0.80)
SYNOPSIS
pdftotext
[options]
[PDF-file
[text-file]]
DESCRIPTION
Pdftotext
converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.
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.
OPTIONS
- -f number
-
Specifies the first page to convert.
- -l number
-
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.)
BUGS
This is a beta release of pdftotext, and there are still a bunch of
PDF features which I have yet to implement.
AUTHOR
The pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-1998
Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@foolabs.com).
SEE ALSO
xpdf(1),
pdftops(1),
pdfinfo(1),
pdftopbm(1),
pdfimages(1)
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- BUGS
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- AUTHOR
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- SEE ALSO
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