PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

Table 2.1 TET command-line options
option parameters function
--imageloop page | resource Specifies the kind of enumeration loop for extracting images with the --image option
(default: resource if --tetml is specified, otherwise page):
page
resource
Enumerate all images on the selected pages. Images which are placed
multiply will be extracted multiply. Extracted images will be named
according to the following pattern:
_p_.[tif|jpg|jpx|jbig2]
Enumerate all (merged) image resources in the document. Each image
resource will be extracted only once, regardless of the number of
occurrences in the document. The --firstpage and --lastpage
options will be ignored for extracting images. Extracted images will be
named according to the following pattern:
_I.[tif|jpg|jpx|jbig2]
Note: I is also used in the TETML attribute Image/@id.
--imageopt Additional option list for TET_write_image_file( ) (see Table 10.17, page 183)
--lastpage
-l
--outfile
-o
--pagecount
| last
The number of the page where content extraction will finish. The keyword last
specifies the last page, last-1 the page before the last page, etc. Default: last
(Not allowed if multiple input file names are supplied) File name for text or TETML
output. The file name »-« can be used to designate standard output provided only
a single input file has been supplied. Default: name of the input file, with .pdf or
.PDF replaced with .txt (for text output) or .tetml (for TETML output).
Print the number of pages in the document, i.e. the value of the pCOS path
length:pages, to stdout or the file provided with --outfile.
--pageopt Additional option list which will be supplied to TET_open_page( ) if text output is
generated, or to TET_process_page( ) if TETML output is generated. See Table 10.10,
page 169 and Table 10.18, page 185, for a list of available options. For text output
the option granularity will always be set to page.
--password,
-p
--samedir
--searchpath 1
-s
--targetdir
-t
--tetml
-m
...
glyph | word |
wordplus |
line | page
User, master or attachment password for encrypted documents. In some situations
the shrug feature can be used to index protected documents without supplying
a password (see Section 5.1, »Extracting Content from protected PDF«, page
59).
Create output files in the same directory as the input file(s).
Name of one or more directories where files (e.g. CMaps) will be searched. Default:
installation-specific
Output directory for generated text, TETML, and image files. The directory must
exist. This option is ignored if --samedir is specified. Default: . (i.e. the current
working directory)
(Can not be combined with --text) Create TETML output according to the TET 3
schema containing text and image information. TETML will always be created in
UTF-8. The supplied parameter selects one of several variants (see Section 9.2,
»Controlling TETML Details«, page 127):
glyph Glyph-based TETML with glyph geometry and font details
word Word-based TETML with word boxes
wordplus Word-based TETML with word boxes plus all glyph details
line Line-based TETML (text only)
page Page-based TETML (text only)
--tetopt Additional option list for TET_set_option( ) (see Table 10.2, page 148). The option
outputformat will be ignored (use --format instead).
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