Xpdf-tools-win-4.04

| Issue | Workaround | |-------|-------------| | No Unicode output in text | Try -enc UTF-8 | | Non-Western text garbled | Use -enc with appropriate encoding | | No PDF creation / editing | Not a goal of Xpdf | | Scanned PDFs (image only) | Need OCR first (Xpdf can’t OCR) | | Some complex layouts | -layout may still fail; use pdftohtml instead |

pdfimages -j input.pdf images/prefix

Unlike many modern tools that require .NET, Python, or MSVC runtimes, Xpdf Tools are statically linked. They run immediately on any Windows version from Windows 7 to Windows 11 (including Server editions). xpdf-tools-win-4.04

for %f in (*.pdf) do pdftotext -layout "%f" "output\%~nf.txt"

This loop converts every PDF in the current folder into a text file in the output folder, preserving table layouts via the -layout flag. | Issue | Workaround | |-------|-------------| | No

pdfdetach -saveall input.pdf

pdfimages -j -png -tiff report.pdf images/prefix

This command saves JPEGs as .jpg, PNGs as .png, and TIFs as .tif into the images folder, named prefix-000.jpg, prefix-001.png, etc. pdfimages -j input

pdfinfo -isodates secret_document.pdf > metadata.txt
type metadata.txt

This outputs creation dates and modification dates in an ISO-compliant format.