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pdftotext
Convert PDF to text.
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Verified: 2026-05-10
Syntax
$pdftotext [OPTIONS] PDF [TEXTFILE]
Examples
$pdftotext document.pdf
$pdftotext -layout document.pdf output.txt
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
pdftotext --help
Note
Part of poppler-utils. Extracts text from PDF.
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