pdftotext(1)
NAME
pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text con-
verter (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/