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PDF to text conversion on Ubuntu

Install poppler-utils

sudo aptitude search poppler

aptitude install poppler-utils

pdf2text file.pdf file.txt

pdf2text -f5 file.pdf file.text (convert first 5 pages)

pdf2test -upw 'password' file.pdf file.txt (for password protected pdf files)

Simple PDF to png conversion

Install imagmagick

convert -append 201112\ Flag\ Results\ \ R3.pdf flagr3.png

rendering

Unoconv

Introduction

Unoconv in a nutshell runs a headless instance of Openoffice on port 2002 and uses the OO UNO command line arguments to convert documents

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/

Usage

In it's simplest usage (default output is PDF)

unoconv test.jpg

For further options

unoconv -h

Installing

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/unoconv/

Install Openoffice binaries first

Exclude language packs from /etc/yum.conf

exclude=openoffice.org-langpack*

yum install openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-pyuno

yum install openoffice.org-headless.x86_64

yum install openoffice.org-writer

yum install openoffice.org-draw

yum install openoffice.org-calc

yum install openoffice.org*

Install the uniconv package

rpm -Uvh unoconv-0.4-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm