13–25–1 Processing

Extracts the text from the input PDF file and outputs it in the form of a text file.

• The text file will be output to the output path specified by the parameter.
• The setting of output file (-o) is not required to run this command.

13–25–2 Example of commands

[Executing example commands]

Extracts the text of test.pdf and outputs it to out.txt.

• When extracting, page settings and the text extraction order follow the settings below:
  • Page setting: 1st page, 3rd to 5th page.
  • Text extraction order: Sort the text on the page in order of coordinates

[Windows]

AHPDFToolCmd80.exe -extractText C:\sav\out.txt -pageNo 0,2-4 -sort -d C:\test\test.pdf

[Linux]

AHPDFToolCmd80 -extractText /home/antenna/sav/out.txt -pageNo 0,2-4 -sort -d /home/antenna/test/test.pdf

13–25–3 Folder settings: applied

You can perform batch processing by specifying the input folder to the -d parameter. If a folder is specified, text will be extracted from the PDF file in the input folder. Specify the output folder with the parameter [outTextFilePath].

The output file will be output to the specified folder with the input file name with the extension changed to ".txt"

13–25–4 Parameters