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Old 12-08-2013
Pdftotext from multiple pdf files to a single text file

I have a directory having a number of pdf files.
I want to convert all the files to text, stored in a single text file

The following creates multiple text files

Code:
ls *.pdf | xargs -n1 pdftotext

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Old 12-08-2013
Try using a for loop and redirecting the output of the loop.
 
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