pdf2plain

README

pdf2plain

Can be used to convert pdf to plain text for downstream process of bioextr.

Installation

Xpdf command line tools (required):

• Linux 32/64-bit: download (GPG signature)
• Windows 32/64-bit: download (GPG signature)
• Mac 64-bit: download (GPG signature)

# windows
wget https://github.com/clindet/bioextr/releases/download/v0.1.0/pdf2plain.exe

# osx
wget https://github.com/clindet/bioextr/releases/download/v0.1.0/pdf2plain_osx
mv pdf2plain_osx pdf2plain
chmod a+x pdf2plain

# linux
wget https://github.com/clindet/bioextr/releases/download/v0.1.0/pdf2plain_linux64
mv pdf2plain_linux64 pdf2plain
chmod a+x pdf2plain

# get latest version
go get -u github.com/clindet/bioextr/pdf2plain

Usage

pdf2plain _examples/Multi-omic_approaches_to_improve_outcome_for_T-cel.pdf -o out.text

Maintainer

• @Jianfeng

License

Academic Free License version 3.0