PDF Utilities

• pdffonts -- font analyzer
• pdfimages -- image extractor
• pdfinfo -- document information
• pdftoabw -- PDF to Abiword converter
• pdftohtml -- PDF to HTML converter
• pdftoppm -- PDF to PPM/PNG/JPEG image converter
• pdftops -- PDF to PostScript (PS) converter
• pdftotext -- text extraction

Installation
pdftohtml is part of the poppler-utils package:

• CentOS Linux
  yum install poppler-utils

  Or from source:

  yum -y install pkgconfig fontconfig-devel
cd /extra/src
wget http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.17.1.tar.gz
tar zxf poppler-0.17.1.tar.gz
cd poppler-0.17.1

  Configure:

  ./configure
make
make install
• OS X
  first:
  wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz
tar zxf pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz
cd pkg-config-0.25
./configure
make
sudo make install

  OS X 10.3 had a few extras needed:

  • GNU Make >3.79:
    wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.81.tar.gz
tar zxf make-3.81.tar.gz
cd make-3.81
configure
make
sudo make install
  • freetype:
    
    wget http://mirror.cinquix.com/pub/savannah/freetype/freetype-2.4.1.tar.gz
tar zxf freetype-2.4.1.tar.gz
cd freetype-2.4.1
/usr/local/bin/make
sudo make install
  • libxml2>2.6.16:
    
    wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2//libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz
tar zxf libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.7.7
./configure
make
sudo make install

  fontconfig next:

  wget http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz
tar zxf fontconfig-2.8.0.tar.gz
cd fontconfig-2.8.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

  Then poppler:

  wget http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.14.1.tar.gz
tar zxf poppler-0.14.1.tar.gz
cd poppler-0.14.1
./configure
make
sudo make install