Command line PDF reader

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Is there a command line program for linux that will let me read the text of PDFs? I'll willing to live with a lack of pictures.

Suppressingfire · Answer 1 · 2009-11-20 18:17:24Z

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There are several pdf2text tools in Ubuntu. For example, the poppler-utils package contains /usr/bin/pdftotext.

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ricbax · Answer 2 · 2009-11-20 17:48:35Z

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Howto Open a PDF file under Linux / FreeBSD (lower part of article give you the options you are looking for)

answered Nov 20 '09 at 17:48

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Matt Hickford · Answer 3 · 2011-02-07 00:17:39Z

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pdf2txt.py from the Python project PDFMiner.

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