PDF to Text Conversion

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi Guys,

My OS is Suse Linux.. Is there a Command to convert PDF file to Text??

Cheers!!!!!

2

There are utilities available; for purchase or free.
Nothing standard within any version of unix.
Suggest a search on the internet for names.
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Hi.

In the Debian repositories are many items that deal with PDFs. Among them is:

NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version
       3.02)

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

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

I found very little in the standard SuSE repositories. Perhaps you can search for better repositories for SuSE.

The package that includes pdftotext is:

 xpdf is a suite of tools for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are
 sometimes called 'Acrobat' files after the name of Adobe's PDF software.)
 .
 The tools include xpdf, a PDF viewer (in the package xpdf-reader),
 and PDF converters (including to/from PostScript) (in the package
 xpdf-utils).

And a link that may be of use is: Xpdf At the site several links are provided for pre-compiled instances for numerous *nix including BSDs, Solaris, and HP-UX.

I just tried a test run of pdftotext on the documentation pdf for msort. It produced text just as promised -- pdftotext version 3.02

Best wishes ...cheers, drl