poppler-utils

PDF manipulation command-line utilities

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.

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.

pdfattach

Attach files to PDFs.

pdftocairo

Convert PDF to image formats using Cairo.

pdftohtml

Convert PDF to HTML.

pdftops

Convert PDF to PostScript.

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.