From 3f9adcd5e0a47bd3b20c39ee23a9b56420ed3090 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "James R. Barlow" <jim@purplerock.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:48:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Document idea for producing companion text files

---
 docs/cookbook.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/cookbook.rst b/docs/cookbook.rst
index 86c11563..6ff427a8 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook.rst
+++ b/docs/cookbook.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ By default OCRmyPDF assumes the document is English.
 Language packs must be installed for all languages specified. See :ref:`Installing additional language packs <lang-packs>`.
 
 
+Produce PDF and text file containing OCR text
+"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+This produces a file named "output.pdf" and a companion text file named "output.txt". The ``pdftotext`` program from 
+`Poppler <https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>`_ is used to extract text from the finished PDF.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+	ocrmypdf input.pdf - | tee output.pdf | pdftotext - output.txt
+
+
 OCR images, not PDFs
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