Extract text from PDF, from the command line

pdftotext is a command line tool for converting PDF files to plain text. Included by default with many Linux distributions.

$ pdftotext file.pdf

The gs (Ghostscript) program can also handle the process:
$ gs -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o extractedText.txt input.pdf

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