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I was just wondering if there is a way to display content of a pdf file inside terminal, you know just like doing 'less file.txt' but with pdf files.

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not programming related, belongs on superuser.com. try googling for "xpdf". – ax. Oct 17 '09 at 15:12
Good question (I like to know the answer) but not programming related, belongs on SU – DVK Oct 17 '09 at 15:43
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The program pdftotext, which comes as a part of xpdf, can convert a PDF to text. There is also a program called lesspipe, which can be set as a preprocessor for less so that if you have pdftotext or something like it installed, you can just use less with PDF (and many other types of files).

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There are tools that allow to extract text from pdf files (google for it) but IMHO there are cases where this will simply be no possible (imagine a pdf that contains only images).

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pdftotext should work for this

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