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- Save the code above in a file called "extract_text.sh"
- In the terminal, go to the directory where you saved extract_text.sh. For example:
- cd /Users/me/myscripts
- Make the script executable with the following command:
- chmod +x extract_text.sh
- Put all of your PDFs in a single directory.
- Assuming that you put all of your PDFs in /Users/me/mypdfs, and you want to write text output to the directory /Users/me/myplaintext, call extract_text.sh as follows:
- ./extract_text.sh /Users/me/mypdfs/ /Users/me/myplaintext/
- If you are working with German-language texts, you can add a language code at the end. For example:
- ./extract_text.sh /Users/me/mypdfs/ /Users/me/myplaintext/ deu