PDF2Text Pilot
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PDF2Text Pilot text extractor provides you with a very fast method of extracting text from PDF documents. Just select PDF files, click Convert, and you will get text files containing the resulting texts from the PDF extraction.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Windows
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Two Pilots Licensing
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Comments and Reviews
PDF2Text Pilot is the only free command-line-PDF-tool I know, able to convert PDF-files to text-files using the command line following the instruction http://www.colorpilot.com/pdf2text-command-line3.html .
This instruction you can also find in the Windows GUI of PDF2Text Pilot: Help - Contents - Using Command Line. All other PDF-to-txt tools I have found, are not free.
It was not easy to find the correct instruction, how to use the command-line-syntax, but with a syntax following this instruction the conversion of pdf-files to txt-files works fantastically.
Do not work on basic PDF files, output two blank lines without any warning or error. Tested on a dozen PDF generated from an official website (i.e. they are automatically created from database content): none can be converted successfully, despite the text can be selected within Acrobat Reader without any problem.
Is this realy open source ???