Re: Extracting Text from PDF
Re: Extracting Text from PDF
- Subject: Re: Extracting Text from PDF
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:28:33 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Dan Doughtie <email@hidden> message dated "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:52:06 -0700."
Dan Doughtie <email@hidden> wrote:
> Scripting Acrobat is pretty messy. Are there any command line apps that can
> extract text from a PDF similar to extracting text from a Word document with
> Textutil.
I use xpdf to do that; it includes a command-line app 'pdftotext' which
will spit out the text of the document. I've written patches for it, as
well, to spit out wordbox info and to spit out links in the doc. Those
patches are included in the doceng-toolkit project on SourceForge.
Bill
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