Read contents of a pdf file

Question

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

Thanks..

Answer 1

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

• http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/

you should also be able to write a simple reader using

• http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465-pure-python-pdf-to-text-converter/

you can also look at:

• http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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