PDF to TEXT open source command line tool

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PDF to TEXT open source command line tool ? It must be Command line utility & should be open source, free to use.

Reece · Answer 1 · 2011-06-08 17:34:22Z

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I use pdftotext in poppler-utils on Ubuntu. It works great. The -layout option is especially helpful with tables.

answered Jun 8 '11 at 17:34

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cwallenpoole · Answer 2 · 2011-06-08 17:33:03Z

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Personally, I use PDFMiner for Python (>= 2.6). It's simple enough, and it has always seemed to work consistently.

answered Jun 8 '11 at 17:33

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Vlad Lazarenko · Answer 3 · 2011-06-08 17:32:50Z

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Pdftotext, which is a part of Xpdf package, is what you are looking for.

answered Jun 8 '11 at 17:32

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