Re: [Pdfedit-support] Save file as text from the command line

[Thomas S. <ts...@la...>]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Alister Hood wrote:

> Sorry if someone else replied and I missed it.
> I don't know how to do this with pdfedit, but you could alternatively
> try the pdftotext tool from xpdf, or pdftohtml if that is more suitable
> for your purpose.
>
> Alister

I am currently using pdftotext in my script. However, it doesn't work 
well. That means, it drops a lot of spaces between words which makes the 
output almost unuseable. This may be a problem with the PDF-input, but 
I have no influence on this. For this reason I tried to use pdfedit and 
found, that it's much better: the output is perfect.

>From the man page I can see that there is a command line mode. I found the 
script savealltext.qs on the wiki. But I can't figure out how to use this 
from the command line. I still guess it must be easy, but I have no 
success so far. Unfortunately I could not find any examples of how to use 
pdfedit in command line mode.

Thomas


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Spahni [mailto:ts...@la...]
> Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2009 12:21 a.m.
> To: pdf...@li...
> Subject: [Pdfedit-support] Save file as text from the command line
>
> Hello
>
> I'm a new subscriber on this list; greetings to everyone.
>
> I have a bash script which at some point should translate a PDF file to
> plain text. Let's say we have foobar.pdf and want to convert it to
> foobar.txt. I can do this from the GUI but I'm unable to figure out what
>
> the command should be to do the same from the command line.
>
> Yes, I read the docs, manpage, wiki, archives, but still no luck. Yor
> help
> would be very much appreciated.
>
> Details: PDFedit 0.4.2 from the SuSE-11.1 packman repo.
>
> Best ragards,
> Tom
>
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