In the Linux without any additional software package you can convert PDF document to text document pdf2txt with simple Linux command pdftotext. First you need to install the package poppler-utils.Then you can run the command. There package name is poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.1.el5 for rhel5 red hat enterprise Linux 5 pdf2txt.
When you install these package it will list out these following things it show the package is update and there package size 70K
[root@localhost ~]#yum install poppler-utils*
Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.1.el5 set to be updated
poppler-utils i386 0.5.4-4.1.el5 rhel-debuginfo 70 k
Then now you can convert pdf document to text document using following command.
[root@localhost ~]# pdftotext rhel5.pdf rhel5.txt
First one is source file second one is destination file.
-opw specify the owner password
-f option refers to the first page conversion
-l refers to the last page conversions
-htmlmeta these option it will generate html file like following PDF info refers to the detail about the PDF document
PDF info refers to the detail about the PDF document
[root@localhost ~]# pdfinfo rhel5.pdf
Producer: GNU Ghostscript 7.07
Tagged: no
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size: 86887 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.3
pdf2txt Linux command
When you install these package it will list out these following things it show the package is update and there package size 70K
[root@localhost ~]#yum install poppler-utils*
Package poppler-utils.i386 0:0.5.4-4.1.el5 set to be updated
poppler-utils i386 0.5.4-4.1.el5 rhel-debuginfo 70 k
Then now you can convert pdf document to text document using following command.
[root@localhost ~]# pdftotext rhel5.pdf rhel5.txt
First one is source file second one is destination file.
-opw specify the owner password
-f option refers to the first page conversion
-l refers to the last page conversions
-htmlmeta these option it will generate html file like following PDF info refers to the detail about the PDF document
PDF info refers to the detail about the PDF document
[root@localhost ~]# pdfinfo rhel5.pdf
Producer: GNU Ghostscript 7.07
Tagged: no
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size: 86887 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.3
pdf2txt Linux command
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