# Google Apps Script pdfToText Utility#

This is a helper function that will convert a given PDF file blob into text, as well as offering options to save the original PDF, intermediate Google Doc, and/or final plain text files. Additionally, the language used for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) may be specified, defaulting to 'en' (English).

Note: Updated 12 May 2015 due to deprecation of DocsList. Thanks to Bruce McPherson for the `getDriveFolderFromPath()` utility.

```
    // Start with a Blob object
    var blob = gmailAttchment.getAs(MimeType.PDF);

    // fileId will be the ID of a saved text file (default behavior):
    var fileId = pdfToText( blob );

    // filetext will contain text from pdf file, no residual files are saved:
    var filetext = pdfToText( blob, {keepTextfile: false} );

    // we can save other converted file types, too:
    var options = {
       keepPdf : true,            // Keep a copy of the original PDF file.
       keepGdoc : true,           // Keep a copy of the OCR Google Doc file.
       keepTextfile : true,       // Keep a copy of the text file. (default)
       path : "attachments/today" // Folder path to store file(s) in.
    }
    filetext = pdfToText( blob, options );
```