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pdftotext(1)							  pdftotext(1)

NAME
       pdftotext  -  Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version
       3.00)

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

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       -f number
	      Specifies the first page to convert.

       -l number
	      Specifies the last page to convert.

       -r number
	      Specifies the resolution, in DPI.	 The default is 72 DPI.

       -x number
	      Specifies the x-coordinate of the crop area top left corner

       -y number
	      Specifies the y-coordinate of the crop area top left corner

       -W number
	      Specifies the width of crop area in pixels (default is 0)

       -H number
	      Specifies the height of crop area in pixels (default is 0)

       -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.

       -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.

       -bbox  Generate an XHTML file containing bounding box  information  for
	      each word in the file.

       -enc encoding-name
	      Sets  the	 encoding  to  use  for	 text output. This defaults to
	      "UTF-8".

       -listenc
	      Lits the available encodings

       -eol unix | dos | mac
	      Sets the end-of-line convention to use for text output.

       -nopgbrk
	      Don't insert page breaks (form feed characters) between pages.

       -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.

       -v     Print copyright and version information.

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

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.

EXIT CODES
       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.

AUTHOR
       The  pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph
       & Cog,  LLC.   pdffonts(1),  pdfimages(1),  pdfinfo(1),	pdftocairo(1),
       pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1)

				22 January 2004			  pdftotext(1)
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