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# fetch-pdf
Download and extract text from a PDF URL using curl and a PDF text extraction tool.
## Usage
```bash
# Download PDF
curl -L -o document.pdf "URL"
# Extract all text from PDF (requires pdftotext from poppler-utils)
pdftotext document.pdf output.txt
# Or use Python's pdfplumber for better text extraction
python3 -c "import pdfplumber; pdf = pdfplumber.open('document.pdf'); text = '\n\n'.join([page.extract_text() for page in pdf.pages]); print(text)"
```
## Installation
### macOS
```bash
brew install poppler # for pdftotext
# or
pip install pdfplumber # for Python approach
```
### Linux
```bash
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils # for pdftotext
# or
pip install pdfplumber # for Python approach
```
## Example
```bash
# Download a PDF
curl -L -o document.pdf "https://example.gov/document.pdf"
# Extract all text
pdftotext document.pdf document.txt
# View the extracted text
cat document.txt
```
