[ILUG-Cochin.org] pdftotext and utf8

[sanalkumar mr]

Dear all.....Plz help me to solve this problem.
$ pdftotext -f 3 commonds.pdf rr.txt
When I executed the above command the file was converted to text file.But
when I tried it with a Malayalam pdf file it didn't give me the output.
$ pdftotext -f 1 -layout -enc utf8 madhyam_first.pdf ff.txt
The command executed is given above....and the error shown is given below
Error: Couldn't find unicodeMap file for the 'utf8' encoding
Error: Couldn't get text encoding
I visited man pages of pdftotext and some sites to learn more about that
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/converter-pdf-files-to-text-format-command/
 ,but didn't get help for the conversion of a Malayalam(utf8) pdf file.
and then I tried this
$ pdftotext -f 1 -layout -enc UTF-8 madhyam_first.pdf ff.txt
and I got a file named ff.txt , but that is not Malayalam
Plz help me to solve this issue
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