Pdf to text : Poppler-utils versus Convert/imagemagick?
 

Hi,

I would like to ask you which one could be mostly recommended to convert a pdf to text.
http://packages.debian.org/fr/sid/poppler-utils

I have used convert file.pdf file.txt
and pdftotext but still I do not see the great benefits of one over the other.

Which one is better working / might be advised?

Regards

It really depends on just what the pdf is
if it is just a stranded plain text doc saved as a pdf
then pdftotext

if it is a formatted MS docx saved to a pdf
pdf2html or import into libreoffice ( my preferred )

if it is a "fax" tiff or jpg scan saved as a pdf
gimp and save to ppm
then gocr or ocrad