bulk pdf text extraction tool?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > bulk pdf text extraction tool?

double nine: Aug 8, 2013

I have a bunch of pdfs from way back when - mostly news/magazine/... articles that I copied to a word document and printed as a pdf. Problem is I never made an overview so now I don't know what most of these are. What I'd like to do is to make an excel that's an overview.
Basic structure of the pdfs is:

code:

title
by suchandsuch, ditto

	short summary, usually 2/3 sentences

text of article

Is there a script/tool/... to export these 3 elements - author, title, summary from each pdf to a single xls file (i.e. 1 line per file, 3 columns with that data)? Effectively these 3 elements would be the first 3 paragraphs of each pdf.

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