


pdftotext(1)                                         pdftotext(1)


NAME
       pdftotext  -  Portable  Document Format (PDF) to text con-
       verter (version 0.91)

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.

       -ascii7
              Convert the text to 7-bit ASCII; the default is  to
              use the 8-bit ISO Latin-1 character set.

       -latin2
              Convert  the text to the Latin-2 (ISO-8859-2) char-
              acter set.  (This will only be useful if  the  font
              encodings are specified correctly in the PDF file.)

       -latin5
              Convert the text to the Latin-5 (ISO-8859-9)  char-
              acter  set.   (This will only be useful if the font
              encodings are specified correctly in the PDF file.)

       -eucjp Convert Japanese text to EUC-JP.  This is currently
              the only option for converting Japanese text -- the
              only  effect  is  to switch to 7-bit ASCII for non-
              Japanese text, in order  to  fit  into  the  EUC-JP
              encoding.  (This option is only available if pdfto-
              text was compiled with Japanese support.)

       -raw   Keep the text in content stream order.  This  is  a
              hack  which  often "undoes" column formatting, etc.
              This option will likely be replaced with  something
              more  sophisticated  when pdftotext is rewritten to
              use a smarter text placement algorithm.

       -upw password
              Specify the user password for the PDF file.

       -q     Don't print any messages or errors.



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pdftotext(1)                                         pdftotext(1)


       -v     Print copyright and version information.

       -h     Print usage information.  (-help is 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.

AUTHOR
       The pdftotext software  and  documentation  are  copyright
       1996-2000 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@foolabs.com).

SEE ALSO
       xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftopbm(1), pdfimages(1)
       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/









































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