Are there more robust tools than Automator to extract text from multiple PDF?
Solution 1:
I don't know how it compares against other options, but you could use pdfotext. It can be installed with brew install xpdf.
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.pdf -" without altering line endings
Calibre also comes with some command line utilities:
/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.pdf /tmp/output.txt
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