pdftotext

pdftotext

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO

NAME

pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 1.00)

SYNOPSIS

pdftotext [options? [''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.

CONFIGURATION FILE

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.

OPTIONS

Many of the following options can be set with configuration file commands. 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.

-raw

Keep the text in content stream order. This is a hack which often

-htmlmeta

Generate a simple HTML file, including the meta information. This simply wraps the text in

-enc encoding-name

Sets the encoding to use for text output. The encoding-name must be defined with the unicodeMap command (see xpdfrc(5)). This defaults to textEncoding]

-eol unix | dos | mac

Sets the end-of-line convention to use for text output. __textEOL__?

-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.

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