Convert pdf to txt

Convert pdf to text (txt) file

Installation

On macOS:

• brew install poppler

On Ubuntu:

• sudo apt install poppler-utils

Verify the installation

Run one of the following commands in your terminal:

• which pdftotext — displays the executable path
• pdftotext -v — shows the version number

Usage

pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]

Documentations

• Poppler
• Poppler (software) - Wikipedia
• PDF conversion