pdftotext - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 1
Updated : 15 August 2011

NAMEpdftotext − Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03)

SYNOPSISpdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]

DESCRIPTIONPdftotext 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. If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.

OPTIONS−f number  Specifies the first page to convert. −l number  Specifies the last page to convert. −r number  Specifies the resolution, in DPI. The default is 72 DPI. −x number  Specifies the x-coordinate of the crop area top left corner −y number  Specifies the y-coordinate of the crop area top left corner −W number  Specifies the width of crop area in pixels (default is 0) −H number  Specifies the height of crop area in pixels (default is 0) −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 character 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. −nodiag  Discard diagonal text (i.e., text that is not close to one of the 0, 90, 180, or 270 degree axes). This is useful for skipping watermarks drawn on body text. −htmlmeta  Generate a simple HTML file, including the meta information. This simply wraps the text in <pre> and </pre> and prepends the meta headers. −bbox  Generate an XHTML file containing bounding box information for each word in the file. −bbox-layout  Generate an XHTML file containing bounding box information for each block, line, and word in the file. −tsv  Generate a TSV file containing the bounding box information for each block, line, and word in the file. −cropbox  Use the crop box rather than the media box with −bbox and −bbox-layout. −colspacing number  Specifies how much spacing we allow after a word before considering adjacent text to be a new column, measured as a fraction of the font size. Current default is 0.7, old releases had a 0.3 default. −enc encoding-name  Sets the encoding to use for text output. This defaults to "UTF-8". −listenc  Lists the available encodings −eol unix | dos | mac  Sets the end-of-line convention to use for text output. −nopgbrk  Don't insert page breaks (form feed characters) between pages. −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. −v  Print copyright and version information. −h  Print usage information. (−help and −−help are equivalent.)

BUGSSome PDF files contain fonts whose encodings have been mangled beyond recognition. There is no way (short of OCR) to extract text from these files.

EXIT CODESThe 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.

AUTHORThe pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.

SEE ALSOpdfdetach(1), pdffonts(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)
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