pdftotext(1)                                         pdftotext(1)NAME       pdftotext  -  Portable  Document Format (PDF) to text con-       verter (version 3.02)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,  typically  /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location       can  be  changed  when  pdftotext  is  built).   See   the       xpdfrc(5) man page for details.OPTIONS       Many  of  the following options can be set with configura-       tion file commands.  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  physi-              cal  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: textEncod-              ing]       -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.   Pro-              viding  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 sys-              tem-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       1996-2007 Glyph & Cog, LLC.SEE ALSO       xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdfinfo(1), pdffonts(1), pdftoppm(1),       pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)       http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/                         27 Febuary 2007             pdftotext(1)