GETPDFTEXT(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for GETPDFTEXT(1) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection — aka getpdftext.pl — and its whole thing is: Extracts and print the text from one or more PDF pages. yes the original says “print”, we are not gonna fight it, it’s iconic. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here’s the vibe:

getpdftext.pl [options] infile.pdf [<pagenums>]

Options:
  -c --check          just validates the page instead of printing it
  -g --geometry       just computes geometry, prints nothing
  -v --verbose        print diagnostic messages
  -h --help           verbose help message
  -V --version        print CAM::PDF version

<pagenums> is a comma-separated list of page numbers.
     Ranges like '2-6' allowed in the list
     Example: 4-6,2,12,8-9

so the flags are:

• -c, --check — just validates the page instead of printing it
• -g, --geometry — just computes geometry, prints nothing
• -v, --verbose — print diagnostic messages
• -h, --help — verbose help message
• -V, --version — print CAM::PDF version

and <pagenums> is a comma-separated list of page numbers. ranges like '2-6' allowed in the list, example: 4-6,2,12,8-9. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so what it does: it Extracts all of the text from the specified PDF page(s) and prints them to STDOUT. If no pages are specified, all pages are processed. that’s the whole main character move. ✨

the --check and --geometry modes are distinctly different. they are used primarily for debugging. lowkey important: these are not the same vibe, they are debugging tools. 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• CAM::PDF
• renderpdf.pl

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

See CAM::PDF.

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okay bestie, that’s the page. this little manual moment is serving perl v5.42.3, dated 2013-08-15. byeee 🫶💖