XpdfText

XpdfText() returns PDF text by executing the Xpdf pdftotext command. This function acts as a MATLAB wrapper for pdftotext and will return a cell array of cells containing the PDF text returned from this Xpdf command. This function was created from pdftotext version 3.04.

Contents

• Syntax
• Example
• Input Arguments
• Output Arguments

Syntax

text = XpdfText(filename)
text = XpdfText(..., filename)

Example

% Retrieve info from test.pdf
text = XpdfText('/path/to/file/', 'test.pdf');

% Print the text from the first page
fprintf('%s\n', text{1}{1:end});

Input Arguments

Variable	Type	Description
filename	cell array of strings	The full PDF file name. The name can be provided either as a single string (in filename) containing the path and file, or as separate strings. If separate strings are provided (in varargin), they are concatenated using fullfile()

Output Arguments

Variable	Type	Description
text	n x 1 cell array	Text data for n pages. Each cell contains an m x 1 cell array of strings, where m is the number of lines on that page. Note that pdftotext is executed with the -table flag, so the lines are optimized for tables.