GETPDFTEXT(1p)

💖 getpdftext — the 1p glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, this is a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, and it's about getpdftext — your little bestie for yanking the text out of PDFs and yeeting it straight at your terminal. no cap. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

getpdftext — Extracts and print the text from one or more PDF pages 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

getpdftext [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 whole vibe is: you give it a PDF, you optionally tell it which pages you want, and it does the thing 🎀

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

Literally it pulls all of the text out of the PDF page(s) you asked for and prints them straight to STDOUT. that's it. that's the whole job. 👑

and if you don't specify any pages at all? no worries bestie — it just processes all of them. every single one. the full sweep. 🌈

Now the important part, listen up 📢 — the --check and --geometry modes are distinctly different from each other. like, genuinely different, don't @ me. and they're used primarily for debugging. so don't expect them to be out here printing your text, because that is not what they do. 💀

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• CAM::PDF
• renderpdf

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

See CAM::PDF 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie, slay ✨ — this lil beauty came to you courtesy of perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-08, living its life as GETPDFTEXT(1p). periodt. 💅🎀