You'll like gebo-text-converter better.

A gebo-server module for document-to-text conversions

This package has a butt-load of dependencies. It's tested on Ubuntu 12.04. It'll probably work on other distributions, but the unit tests may break.

This enables you to convert PDFs to plain text (with pdftotext).

Remove the current poppler-utility, if present:

sudo apt-get remove poppler-utils

Visit [http://poppler.freedesktop.org/] to get a new and stable version (the preferred version is poppler-0.24.5.tar.xz)

tar xvf poppler-0.24.5.tar.xz

Prep poppler-utils for compilation and installation:

cd poppler-0.24.5
./configure

If configure is stopped due to missing fontconfig, you need to install fontconfig:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1-dev
./configure

Compile the package:

sudo make

Install the programs, data files, and documentation:

sudo make install

Reboot the system:

sudo reboot

See if the programs were installed:

pdftohtml

If you see the following message:

error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.44: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory

Run:

sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libpoppler.so.44 /usr/lib/

Download the source and install manually from here: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/docx2txt/]

sudo apt-get install unzip
tar xvfz docx2txt-1.2.tgz
cd docx2txt-1.2/
sudo make
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo cp docx2txt.pl docx2txt

sudo apt-get install unrtf
sudo apt-get install odt2txt
sudo apt-get install catdoc

npm install gebo-docs

Do this if you're happy with the default configuration:

var doc = require('gebo-docs')();

Do this if you set your own third-party dependencies in gebo-docs.json (copy the file provided into the desired directory and modify there):

var doc = require('gebo-docs')('/directory/in/which/config/file/is/contained');

Once required,

doc.convertToText('filename').
    then(text) {
        console.log(text); 
      }).
    catch(err) {
        // Something went wrong 
      });

Hit me with it

MIT