Is there any way to extract content of a pdf from bash?

Question

Is there any way to extract content of a pdf from bash? (I have a big folder of academic papers, which sadly have labels like "1010.3423.pdf". I'd like to write a bash script to name them more sensibly, which involves, say googling the first few lines.)

Answer 1

There is pdftotext, which can help you get the title and authors from the pdf file. You can then use this to google, or generate a filename yourself.

Answer 2

try pdftotext to extract the text? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdftotext