SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]

...

       Pdftotext  reads  the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-
       file.  If text-file is not specified, pdftotext  converts  file.pdf  to
       file.txt.  If text-file is '-', the text is sent to stdout.


No. Dammit. You're a Unix filter command. You should ALWAYS be writing to
stdout. Anything else would be hateful and broken and counterintuitive.

Nicholas Clark

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