pdftotext

Convert PDF to text.

Last updated: 2026-05-10 Report error

Syntax

$pdftotext [OPTIONS] PDF [TEXTFILE]

Examples

$pdftotext document.pdf

Examples

$pdftotext -layout document.pdf output.txt

Typical use cases

PDF to text

pdftotext document.pdf

With layout

pdftotext -layout document.pdf output.txt

Note Part of poppler-utils. Extracts text from PDF.

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