How to save a text file in UTF-8 format using pdftotext

Question

I am using the pdftotext tool to open PDF files to convert files to text files. How to save text files in UTF-8 format to save all accent characters in text files. I use the following conversion command, which extracts the contents to a text file but cannot see any accented characters.

pdftotext -enc UTF-8 book1.pdf book1.txt

Please help me solve this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

You can get a list of available encodings using the command:

pdftotext -listenc

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pdftotext -enc UTF-8 your.pdf

(LC_ALL, LANG,...).

EDIT: PDF: http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicodeexample.pdf

Windows 7 () XPDF 3.02PL5 :

pdftotext.exe -enc UTF-8 unicodeexample.pdf

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Answer 2

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• PDF Acrobar Reader
• Unicode ( "" OCR, )

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