poppler-utils
TLDR
Extract text from PDF
$ pdftotext [document.pdf] [output.txt]
Get PDF information$ pdfinfo [document.pdf]
Convert PDF to images$ pdftoppm [document.pdf] [output] -png
Extract images from PDF$ pdfimages [document.pdf] [prefix]
Merge PDF files$ pdfunite [file1.pdf] [file2.pdf] [output.pdf]
SYNOPSIS
Collection of PDF utilities from Poppler library
DESCRIPTION
poppler-utils is a collection of command-line utilities for working with PDF files, based on the Poppler PDF rendering library. It provides tools for extraction, conversion, and manipulation.
EXAMPLES
$ # Extract text
pdftotext document.pdf output.txt
# Convert to PNG images
pdftoppm -png document.pdf page
# Get PDF info
pdfinfo document.pdf
# Extract images
pdfimages -j document.pdf images/
# Merge PDFs
pdfunite doc1.pdf doc2.pdf combined.pdf
# Split pages
pdfseparate document.pdf page-%d.pdf
# List fonts
pdffonts document.pdf
pdftotext document.pdf output.txt
# Convert to PNG images
pdftoppm -png document.pdf page
# Get PDF info
pdfinfo document.pdf
# Extract images
pdfimages -j document.pdf images/
# Merge PDFs
pdfunite doc1.pdf doc2.pdf combined.pdf
# Split pages
pdfseparate document.pdf page-%d.pdf
# List fonts
pdffonts document.pdf
UTILITIES
pdftotext
Extract text content.pdfinfo
Display PDF metadata.pdftoppm
Convert to PPM/PNG/JPEG images.pdfimages
Extract embedded images.pdfunite
Merge multiple PDFs.pdfseparate
Split PDF into pages.pdffonts
List fonts used.pdfdetach
Extract attachments.
CAVEATS
Text extraction quality varies by PDF structure. Some PDFs are image-only. Install poppler-utils package.
HISTORY
Poppler was forked from Xpdf by Derek Noonburg and is maintained by the freedesktop.org project.
