>I need a tool that allow me to select the text from a PDF in batch mode.
>For example: extract the text from the file xxxx in page i.

Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility can do this, although the output is a little
rough:

gs -q -dFirstPage=i -dLastPage=i -dNODISPLAY -dBATCH -dSAFER -dNOBIND\
-dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c save pop -f ps2ascii.ps\
xxxx.pdf xxxx.txt

Ghostscript runs on all platforms and is freely available.

There is a better text extraction utility built on Ghostscript called
pstotext. Look on the Web, or in the Ghostscript distribution, for more
details.

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