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