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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pdf to text Post 302916973 by Don Cragun on Friday 12th of September 2014 05:47:57 PM
Old 09-12-2014
Sorry. By posting in the Shell Programming and Scripting forum, I assumed that you knew how to write and run a shell script.

Making more wild assumptions:
  1. you are using a UNIX or Linux system,
  2. you have more than one directory that contains files you want to process,
  3. you have a bin directory in your home directory, and
  4. $HOME/bin is in your command search path:
then create a file named pdftotextdir in $HOME/bin containing:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then    cd "$1"
else    printf 'Usage: %s directory\n' "${0##*/}" >&2
        exit 1
fi
for file in *.[Pp][Dd][Ff]
do      pdftotext "$file" "${file%.[Pp][Dd][Ff]}".txt
done

(If you don't have a Korn shell, you can change /bin/ksh to /bin/bash or the pathname of any shell that understands POSIX required shell variable expansions.)

Then issue the command:
Code:
chmod +x $HOME/bin/pdftotextdir

Then you can run your new utility to use pdftotext on every PDF file in whatever directory you want to process by issuing the command:
Code:
pdftotextdir directory

which for you latest request would be:
Code:
pdftotextdir /home/dnascopev/Desktop/PDF

 

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xfig-pdf-viewer

XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)						Debian Users Manual						XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)

NAME

       xfig-pdf-viewer - view a PDF document using a PDF browser under X11

SYNOPSIS

       xfig-pdf-viewer file.pdf

DESCRIPTION

       xfig-pdf-viewer is a little shell script, which tries to find out which PDF viewers you have installed on your system and then starts them.
       xfig-pdf-viewer tries the following PDF viewers with descending priority:

       -  xpdf(1)

       -  kpdf(1)

       -  evince(1)

       -  acroread(1)

       -  gpdf(1)

       -  gv(1)

       -  gnome-gv(1)

       -  kghostview(1)

       -  ghostview(1)

       If the environment variable PDFVIEWER is set, this is used with highest priority.

ENVIRONMENT

       PDFVIEWER
	      you can define your favorite browser with this variable, it overrides the priority of the above mentioned viewers.

AUTHOR

       Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>

SEE ALSO

       xpdf(1), kpdf(1), evince(1), acroread(1), gpdf(1), gv(1), gnome-gv(1), kghostview(1), ghostview(1)

Debian Project							     JULY 2006							XFIG-PDF-VIEWER(1)
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