• NAME
  
  pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)
• 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.

  -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.

  -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. This defaults to "UTF-8".

  -listenc

  Lits 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. and --help are equivalent.)

• 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.
• EXIT CODES
  
  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.

• AUTHOR
  
  The pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
• SEE ALSO
  
  pdftops(1) , pdfinfo(1) , pdffonts(1) , pdftoppm(1) , pdfimages(1) ,

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