pdftotext(man) manual page

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## 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/

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