Take a look at the portable bit map utilities, like pdftopbm and gocr, the tool that converts to text. You could convert to pbm, jpg, etc...and then use gocr to get text.
I am not sure if gocr works on pdf files, but if not you can use pdftopdm.
The pdftotext works great for converting pdf files to text, but only seems to do one at a time. Can the command be modified for a directory? Thanks.
If you have the source for pdftotext, you can change it to do anything you want. If you don't have source, or if you want a simple solution, write a shell script that calls pdftotext for each PDF file in your current directory:
Code:
for file in *.pdf
do pdftotext "$file" "${file%.pdf}".txt
done
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:
you are using a UNIX or Linux system,
you have more than one directory that contains files you want to process,
you have a bin directory in your home directory, and
$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:
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