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.. _tutorial_commandline:
Extract text from a PDF using the commandline
*********************************************
pdfminer.six has several tools that can be used from the command line. The
command-line tools are aimed at users that occasionally want to extract text
from a pdf.
Take a look at the high-level or composable interface if you want to use
pdfminer.six programmatically.
Examples
========
pdf2txt.py
----------
::
$ python tools/pdf2txt.py example.pdf
all the text from the pdf appears on the command line
The :ref:`api_pdf2txt` tool extracts all the text from a PDF. It uses layout
analysis with sensible defaults to order and group the text in a sensible way.
dumppdf.py
----------
::
$ python tools/dumppdf.py -a example.pdf
<pdf><object id="1">
...
</object>
...
</pdf>
The :ref:`api_dumppdf` tool can be used to extract the internal structure from a
PDF. This tool is primarily for debugging purposes, but that can be useful to
anybody working with PDF's.
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