PDF to Text Command Line Examples

This page contains various examples of using the PDF to Text API in Command Line. The examples are complete and fully functional. Read more about how to convert PDF to Text in Command Line.

• Convert a local PDF file to a text file
• Convert url with PDF file to a text file

Basic examples

pdf2text -user-name "demo" -api-key "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" \
    "/path/to/invoice.pdf" > "invoice.txt"

pdf2text -user-name "demo" -api-key "ce544b6ea52a5621fb9d55f8b542d14d" \
    "https://pdfcrowd.com/static/pdf/apisamples/invoice.pdf" > "invoice.txt"

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