system("$path/pdftotext","-nopgbrk","$path_my_pdf","$path_my_pdf.txt"); #### system("$path/pdftotext","-enc UTF-8 -nopgbrk","$path_my_pdf","$path_my_pdf.txt"); or simply system("$path/pdftotext","-enc UTF-8","$path_my_pdf","$path_my_pdf.txt"); #### system("$path/pdftotext","-enc", "UTF-8","$path_my_pdf","$path_my_pdf.txt");