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1 pdftotext

       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter

       pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]

       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.

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2 ONFIGURATION_FIL

       Pdftotext  reads  a  configuration  file at startup.  It first tries to
       find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.  If that doesn't exist,
       it looks for a system-wide config file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc
       (but this location can be changed when pdftotext is  built).   See  the
       xpdfrc(5) man page for details.

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2 OPTIONS

       Many  of  the following options can be set with configuration file com-
       mands.  These are listed in square brackets with the description of the
       corresponding command line option.

       -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.

       -fixed number
              Assume fixed-pitch (or tabular) text, with the specified charac-
              ter width (in points).  This forces physical layout mode.

       -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.   The  encoding-name
              must  be  defined  with  the unicodeMap command (see xpdfrc(5)).
              The encoding name is case-sensitive.  This defaults to  "Latin1"
              (which is a built-in encoding).  [config file: textEncoding]

       -eol unix | dos | mac
              Sets the end-of-line convention to use for text output.  [config
              file: textEOL]

       -nopgbrk
              Don't insert page breaks (form feed characters)  between  pages.
              [config file: textPageBreaks]

       -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.  [config file: errQuiet]

       -cfg config-file
              Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config
              file.

       -v     Print copyright and version information.

       -h     Print usage information.  (-help and --help are equivalent.)

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2 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.

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2 XIT_CODE

       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.

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2 AUTHOR

       The  pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-2011 Glyph
       & Cog, LLC.

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2 SEE_ALSO

       xpdf(1),    pdftops(1),    pdfinfo(1),    pdffonts(1),    pdfdetach(1),
       pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

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