pdftotext(1)

NAME
pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 0.7a)

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

-fnumber
    Specifies the first page to convert.

-lnumber
    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.

-h  Print usage information. (-help is equivalent.)

BUGS
This is a beta release of pdftotext, and there are still a bunch of PDF features which I have yet to implement.

AUTHOR
The pdftotext software and documentation are copyright 1996-1998 Derek B. Noonburg (derekn@aimnet.com).

SEE ALSO
xpdf(1), pdftops(1)
http://www.aimnet.com/~derekn/xpdf/