[Okular-devel] Export from pdf to txt, invoking from the command line

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous, 10 de novembre de 2011, filippo di natale vàreu escriure:
> Hi,
> I like very much how Okular exports pdf to txt keeping the correct spacing
> (doing the same with acrobat on windows gave no such clean results). Given
> that I cannot invoke okular from the command line to make a pdf to txt
> conversion (or so I seem to understand) which library okular uses to do its
> pdf to txt conversion? Or, if it is developed internally in the project,
> can it be used stand alone to make a command line pdf to txt converter, and
> which part of the source code should I look ? Thanks,

No, okular does not have a export to text command line. It should not be 
extremely difficult, but we do not have it yet.

You can try to use pdftotext command line, it is not what okular uses but it 
is known to be good enough in some cases.

Albert

> 
> Filippo