PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

2.2 Command-line Examples
The following examples demonstrate some useful combinations of TET command-line
options. The samples are shown in two variations; the first uses the long format of all
options, while the second uses the equivalent short option format.
Extract the text from a PDF document file.pdf in UTF-8 format and store it in file.txt:
tet file.pdf
Exclude the first and last page from text extraction:
tet --firstpage 2 --lastpage last-1 file.pdf
tet -f 2 -l last-1 file.pdf
Supply a directory where the CJK CMaps are located (required for CJK text extraction):
tet --searchpath /usr/local/cmaps file.pdf
tet -s /usr/local/cmaps file.pdf
Extract the text from a PDF in UTF-16 format and store it in file.utf16:
tet --format utf16 --outfile file.utf16 file.pdf
tet --format utf16 -o file.utf16 file.pdf
Extract the text from all PDF files in a directory and store the generated *.txt files in another
directory (which must already exist):
tet --targetdir out in/*.pdf
tet -t out in/*.pdf
Restrict text extraction to a particular area on the page; this can be achieved by supplying
a suitable list of page options:
tet --pageopt "includebox={{0 0 200 200}}" file.pdf
Extract images from file.pdf and store them in file*.tif/file*.jpg in the directory out:
tet --targetdir out --image file.pdf
tet -t out -i file.pdf
Extract images from file.pdf without image merging; this can be achieved by supplying a
suitable list of page options which are relevant for image processing:
tet --targetdir out --image --pageopt "imageanalysis={merge={disable}}" file.pdf
tet -t out -i --pageopt "imageanalysis={merge={disable}}" file.pdf
Generate TETML output in word mode for PDF document file.pdf and store it in file.tetml:
tet --tetml word file.pdf
tet -m word file.pdf
Generate TETML output without any Options elements; this can be achieved by supplying
a suitable list of document options:
tet --docopt "tetml={elements={options=false}}" --tetml word file.pdf
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