Using PDFxStream from the command line

The com.snowtide.pdf.Console class provides a common command-line interface to some of PDFxStream's capabilities, currently basic text, image, and metadata extraction. Please refer to Console's API documentation for information on how to invoke it, and what its options are.

In general, we recommend using Console only for initial evaluation or very simple one-off jobs. When used as part of a long-running application, the full PDFxStream API is far more capable and flexible, will utilize resources far more efficiently, and can be very easily used to create custom command-line programs as needed.