Reputation: 34200

Read contents of a pdf file

Is there a commandline tool to read a pdf file on linux.Please indicate the appropriate urls for this.

Thanks..

Upvotes: 0

Answers (3)

Reputation: 66739

Not a command line tool but a pdf reading and generation framework

you should also be able to write a simple reader using

you can also look at:

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 54342

There is PyODConverter. It uses OpenOffice working as a service and can convert between various document formats including PDF and simple text.

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 664

Xpdf and Poppler contain the commandline-utility pdftotext wich converts PDF files to plain text.

Upvotes: 5