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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.

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

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".

@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.

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

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