Read contents of a pdf file

Question:

Is there a commandline tool to read a pdf file on linux.Please indicate the appropriate urls for this.

Thanks..

Asked By: Hulk

Not a command line tool but a pdf reading and generation framework

you should also be able to write a simple reader using

you can also look at:

Answered By: pyfunc

Xpdf and Poppler contain the commandline-utility pdftotext wich converts PDF files to plain text.

Answered By: johnbaum

There is PyODConverter. It uses OpenOffice working as a service and can convert between various document formats including PDF and simple text.