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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.

CONFIGURATION FILE
       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,  /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc.   See  the
       xpdfrc(5) man page for details.

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.

       -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.)

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.

SEE ALSO
       xpdf(1),	  pdftops(1),  pdfinfo(1),  pdffonts(1),  pdftoppm(1),	pdfim‐
       ages(1), xpdfrc(5)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

				22 January 2004			  pdftotext(1)
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