There are lots of different pdf handling tools available for Linux. All sorts of stuff with ghostscript and other projects that is designed to manipulate and convert data between different formats.

Need to extract data from PDF files into a spreadsheet so you can analyze it? Find out how seven PDF to Excel conversion tools fared in head-to-head tests with increasingly complex data sources.

Leading PDF library company iText Software today launched pdf2Data, which allows users to easily extract and access data from PDF documents.