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/


 

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SEE ALSO

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