Xpdf
Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. Most of the tools are available as open source.
What is Xpdf?
The Xpdf open source project includes a PDF viewer along with a collection of command line tools which perform various functions on PDF files:
xpdf: PDF viewer (click for a screenshot) pdftotext: converts PDF to text pdftops: converts PDF to PostScript pdftoppm: converts PDF pages to netpbm (PPM/PGM/PBM) image files pdftopng: converts PDF pages to PNG image files pdftohtml: converts PDF to HTML pdfinfo: extracts PDF metadata pdfimages: extracts raw images from PDF files pdffonts: lists fonts used in PDF files pdfdetach: extracts attached files from PDF files
XpdfReader, available from the download page, is a closed source version of the PDF viewer, which includes a few extra features not found in the open source xpdf viewer.
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Tags
- PDF Reader
- pdf-conversion
- Xfce
- pdf-to-ps
Category
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