Calibre

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E-book library management application built around organizing, converting, and reading large personal e-book collections; its bundled `ebook-convert` CLI happens to double as a capable PDF-to-plain-text (and PDF-to-other-e-book-format) converter, alongside dozens of other supported formats. Not a PDF-specific tool — PDF is just one of many formats its conversion pipeline handles — but a genuinely useful one when PDF-to-text conversion is needed as part of a broader e-book workflow.

Sample Results

Real output from running this tool against a sample PDF, as part of PDFog's open-source PDF tooling benchmark.

Input: sample-brochure.pdf

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ebook-convert "sample-brochure.pdf" "sample-brochure--calibre-python.txt"

Output: sample-brochure--calibre-python.txt

221 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

apartment

2

1

1

$1,000,000

Prince Cascading

1234-5678

Additional Information Land Size

1171m2

House Size

-

Map Ref.

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Energy Rating

-

Council Rates

-

Water Rates

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WARM BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT

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221 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC 3000