How to Extract Text Contents from PDF (part 3/3)

[akuzminich]

Nice tutorial, thanks!

[2Milchkaffee]

Thanks for the quick intro into this horrible pdf structure thing....and above: Thanks a lot for the pdfminer tools, which are definitely exact the solution for my problem.

[zzleeper]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[absk82]

Nice demo. Thanks!

[bamdadkhan]

hi there,

i'm trying to make a shell script that i can pipe data into. so far, i haven't found a way to do it. your text extraction script is able to do it, but i don't really understand it. could you elaborate a bit on how '( /bin/echo -ne; cat "$@" )' works, especially the cat "$@" part?

thank you,

bamdad