PDF to Text

[zeitlings]

Extract text from PDF documents.

 

Usage

Extract the entire text from one or more PDFs by sending them to the workflow's File Action or locate a PDF with the File Filter by using the keyword (default: pdftotext). To extract the text from specific pages of a single document, use the ⌘ modifier. The result will be exported as a plain text document.

File Filter

• ↩ Proceed to extract the entire text.
• ⌘↩ Proceed by specifing the pages to extract.
• ⌃↩ Proceed, push the result to the File Buffer and action it in Alfred.

File Action

• ↩ Proceed to extract the entire text.
• ⌘↩ Proceed by specifing the pages to extract (single file only).
• ⌃↩ Proceed, push the result(s) to the File Buffer and action them in Alfred.

Specifying the Pages

• ↩ Proceed to extract text from the specified pages.
• ⌘↩ Preview the first and last PDF pages w/ Alfred's PDF View.
• ⌥↩ Preview the contents of the first and last page w/ Alfred's Text View.
• ⌃↩ Proceed, push the result to the File Buffer and action it in Alfred.

 

Press ↩ to return to the view where you can set the start and end pages.

 

Dependencies

• With Homebrew install
• Poppler: brew install poppler

[sepulchra]

these pdf workflows look great!