/media/bill/PROJECTS/System_maintenance/Linux/pdftotext notes.txt
www.BillHowell.ca  20Jun2018


$  pdftotext "/media/bill/PROJECTS/My Reviews/ISNN2018 19 p Shi, Wang - Supplementary Frequency Control for Multi-machine Power System Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming.pdf"  "/media/bill/PROJECTS/My Reviews/ISNN2018 19 ptxt Shi, Wang - Supplementary Frequency Control for Multi-machine Power System Based on Adaptive Dynamic Programming.txt"





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20Jun2018  for de Jager's solar papers


$ pdftotext  "/media/bill/HOWELL_BASE/Climate/References/de Jager 2008 - Solar activity and its influence on climate.pdf"  \
	"/media/bill/ramdisk/de Jager 2008 - Solar activity and its influence on climate.txt"


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27Jan2018  search "Linux and pdf to text converter"

>>  NEAT!!  pdftotext is already installed!!


https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/command-line-text-to-pdf-conversion-290058/
14Feb2005
text2pddf

https://superuser.com/questions/286961/pdf-to-text-convertor
There's xpdf which includes the pdftotext binary.
Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.
On Linux there's a installer available. It seems that it also comes in the poppler-utils package. On OS X you could install it using Homebrew (install that first) and then use
brew install homebrew/x11/xpdf
which will download the source files and compile it for OS X. After that, just use it like:
pdftotext your_pdf_file.pdf
which will generate a plain text file. There are a couple of options as well, check out man pdftotext for more details.
An alternative is poppler, in OSX:
brew install poppler
in Debian and friends
apt-get install poppler-utils
edited Jun 22 '16 at 11:04, answered May 22 '11 at 8:43, slhck

https://stanford.edu/~mgorkove/cgi-bin/rpython_tutorials/Using%20Python%20to%20Convert%20PDFs%20to%20Text%20Files.php
but I will focus on the one that I think is the best and easiest to use: pdfminer.


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$ man pdftotext

NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03)

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.




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