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# 1  
Old 08-13-2014
Download pdf's using wget convert to txt
Code:
wget -i genedx.txt

The code above will download multiple pdf files from a site, but how can i download and convert these to .txt?

I have attached the master list (genedx.txt - which contains the url and file names)

as well as the two PDF's that are downloaded. I am trying to have those two files download as text files. Thank you.
genedx.txt (142 Bytes) 
info_sheet_ube.pdf (44.5 KB) 
Info_Sheet_XomeDx.pdf (525.8 KB) 
# 2  
Old 08-13-2014
pdftotext
# 3  
Old 08-13-2014
is that a seperate command or can it be used with the wget command? Thanks.
# 4  
Old 08-13-2014
It is a separate command, which -- like any other separate command -- you can use with wget, either by piping the output or by feeding the resulting file into it once wget is done.
# 5  
Old 08-14-2014
So would the command be:

Code:
 wget -i genedx.txt | info_sheet_ube.pdf Info_Sheet_XomeDx.pdf

and where do I download access pdftotext? Thanks.
# 6  
Old 08-14-2014
No, pipes do not work that way.

What you would actually do depends on the contents of genedx.txt, and what you want to do with it.

Here is the second google hit.
# 7  
Old 08-17-2014
After installing PDFMiner, do batch conversion with a for loop. Nothing to do with pipe here.

Code:
$ for f in `ls *.pdf`; do pdf2txt.py $f > ${f%.pdf}.txt; done
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