#XPDF PDF TO TEXT PORTABLE#

Current default is 0.7, old releases had a 0.3 default. 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. Use the crop box rather than the media box with -bbox and -bbox-layout. Generate an XHTML file containing bounding box information for each block, line, and word in the file. Generate an XHTML file containing bounding box information for each word in the file. This simply wraps the text in and and prepends the meta headers. Generate a simple HTML file, including the meta information. This is useful for skipping watermarks drawn on body text.

nodiagДiscard diagonal text (i.e., text that is not close to one of the 0, 90, 180, or 270 degree axes). Use of raw mode is no longer recommended. This is a hack which often 'undoes' column formatting, etc. fixed numberДЄssume fixed-pitch (or tabular) text, with the specified character width (in points). The default is to Вґundo' physical layout (columns, hyphenation, etc.) and output the text in reading order. Maintain (as best as possible) the original physical layout of the text. Specifies the height of crop area in pixels (default is 0) -layout Specifies the width of crop area in pixels (default is 0) -H number Specifies the y-coordinate of the crop area top left corner -W number Specifies the x-coordinate of the crop area top left corner -y number If PDF-file is Вґ-', it reads the PDF file from stdin. If text-file is Вґ-', the text is sent to stdout. If text-file is not specified, pdftotext converts file.pdf to file.txt.

Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.

#XPDF PDF TO TEXT PORTABLE#

Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

Convert pages 2, 3 and 4 of input.pdf to plain text and save them as output.txt: pdftotext -f 2 -l 4 input.pdf output.txt.

Convert input.pdf to plain text and save it as output.txt: pdftotext input.pdf output.txt.

Convert filename.pdf to plain text and preserve the layout: pdftotext -layout filename.pdf.

Convert filename.pdf to plain text and save it as filename.txt: pdftotext filename.pdf.

Convert filename.pdf to plain text and print it to standard output: pdftotext filename.pdf.

Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03) Examples (TL DR)

Xpdf pdf to text