PDF to txt

[teemonie]

Hi -

I keep spinning my wheels on this one and apologize if it is an easy one. All I am trying to do is convert a PDF to txt. I dont need additional settings now just need to convert.

Windows box with 7.0.1-Q16

Thanks in advance.

[fmw42]

What do you mean by converting to txt? Do you mean ascii text or do you mean txt: format. Imagemagick will not process PDF to extract ascii text. You need OCR software. If you want to convert the raster equivalent of the PDF to Imagemagick txt format, then

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convert image.pdf txt:-

That will send the pixel information data to the terminal. Or send it to a file as

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convert image.pdf txt:- > textfile.txt

[snibgo]

Does the PDF contains text as ASCII text? (You can check this with Adobe Viewer.) Is so, then ImageMagick is the wrong tool for the job. A better tool is "pdftotext".

[teemonie]

@fmw42 I am trying to convert into a text format. The first think I am trying to do is convert a PDF that contains text and pictures to be all Text in the .txt format. I hope that makes sense.

I thought that Imagemagick was running OCR in the background that that is why I went this route.

[fmw42]

No, IM does not do OCR. See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#vector

[snibgo]

As Fred says, IM doesn't do OCR. A program that does is "tesseract".