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1 pdftotext
pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter
pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]
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.
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2 ONFIGURATION_FIL
Pdftotext reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries to
find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that doesn't exist,
it looks for a system-wide config file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc
(but this location can be changed when pdftotext is built). See the
xpdfrc(5) man page for details.
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2 OPTIONS
Many of the following options can be set with configuration file com-
mands. These are listed in square brackets with the description of the
corresponding command line option.
-f number
Specifies the first page to convert.
-l number
Specifies the last page to convert.
-layout
Maintain (as best as possible) the original physical layout of
the text. The default is to 'undo' physical layout (columns,
hyphenation, etc.) and output the text in reading order.
-fixed number
Assume fixed-pitch (or tabular) text, with the specified charac-
ter width (in points). This forces physical layout mode.
-raw Keep the text in content stream order. This is a hack which
often "undoes" column formatting, etc. Use of raw mode is no
longer recommended.
-htmlmeta
Generate a simple HTML file, including the meta information.
This simply wraps the text in <pre> and </pre> and prepends the
meta headers.
-enc encoding-name
Sets the encoding to use for text output. The encoding-name
must be defined with the unicodeMap command (see xpdfrc(5)).
The encoding name is case-sensitive. This defaults to "Latin1"
(which is a built-in encoding). [config file: textEncoding]
-eol unix | dos | mac
Sets the end-of-line convention to use for text output. [config
file: textEOL]
-nopgbrk
Don't insert page breaks (form feed characters) between pages.
[config file: textPageBreaks]
-opw password
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this
will bypass all security restrictions.
-upw password
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
-q Don't print any messages or errors. [config file: errQuiet]
-cfg config-file
Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config
file.
-v Print copyright and version information.
-h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
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2 BUGS
Some PDF files contain fonts whose encodings have been mangled beyond
recognition. There is no way (short of OCR) to extract text from these
files.
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2 XIT_CODE
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
0 No error.
1 Error opening a PDF file.
2 Error opening an output file.
3 Error related to PDF permissions.
99 Other error.
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2 AUTHOR
The pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph
& Cog, LLC.
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2 SEE_ALSO
xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdfinfo(1), pdffonts(1), pdfdetach(1),
pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
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