Poppler is a GPL'd PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
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Create executable for Windows from python codebase that needs poppler
I am using pdf2image in my code that in turn needs PATH to have the /bin folder of the Poppler binaries. I will need this in the PATH even after I create an executable that can run on Windows. Pyinstaller is great but does not support poppler yet.…

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pdftotext for firebase functions?
I need to extract text from pdf and for that on my local system i am using pdftotext(poppler) (on ubuntu 18.4 LTS) now i want to deploy the function to Firebase Functions but firebase functions does not have it by default.
Is there any portable…

Anuradha
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Rcpp : undefined symbol: BaseStream when creating a package
I want to create a R package that contains the C++ code wrote by someone else. It is an experimental branch of poppler that has not been pulled into the master version of poppler. The changes concern several c++ files, for this reason :
I need to…

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pdf2image poppler_path parameter does seem to work
I am using pdf2image from a conda env after installing poppler on my Win10 system.
I try to use the poppler_path parameter available in the convert_from_path method but it seems that it does not work.
Anyone with experience with pdf2image on Win10…

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Installing python-poppler-qt4 on Ubuntu 18.04
I am attempting to build the tool from this repo: https://github.com/taurus-forever/diffpdf-console
It requires the headerfile poppler-qt4.h to run its Makefile, which is supposedly included in some poppler dependency. The problem here is that I've…

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Getting the "name" of a named destination with Poppler
I have a PDF document that I'd like to show the named destinations for. I'm using Poppler to do so. What I need is a list of the named destination in the document, including the names and the locations. For now, I am considering only XYZ…

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Poppler PDFInfoNotInstalledError
Part of PDF rendering and conversion using Poppler, I have following code in place but executing code ended-up having error which is mentioned below.
Error message: pdf2image.exceptions.PDFInfoNotInstalledError: Unable
to get page count. Is…

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How to draw a poppler document in a gtkmm DrawingArea
I am trying to draw a PDF with poppler gtk and a gtkmm DrawingArea, but it is not working, I am not sure what is wrong. The drawing area does not draw the document. I know the drawing area works otherwise with Cairo::Context::stroke(). Do I need to…

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How to install poppler correctly for pdftotext
When I try to build my docker-compose pdftotext seems to fail with this error:
Running setup.py install for pdftotext: finished with status 'error'
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/local/bin/python -u -c 'import sys,…

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Command line to check with pdf page contains images
I currectly use pdftohtml from poppler to generate html output from a pdf file, then check which page contains image in the html file.
Is there a command line program that can directly print the numbers of the pages that contain images?

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How to find DPI of a machine generated PDF in ubuntu from command line
I'm writing a python script to get the dpi of a pdf page. To get the DPI of scanned PDF I am using pdfimages command.
$ pdfimages -list test.pdf
page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp object ID x-ppi y-ppi size…

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Imposed (nup'ped) PDF file does not allow selection of text
I have a PDF file with 5 pages. I have created an imposed (nup'ped) PDF file with all those pages on one long paper sheet. I used pdfpages LaTeX package for that and the following code:
\includepdf[pages={1-5},nup=1x5]{original.pdf}
The original…

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Cannot assign TBitmapOfItem to TClipBoard?
I need to crop pdf and create word document of that cropped png image by pasting that in word document.
I am using Firemonkey Platform
this is code :
procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
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Edit (every page of a) Postscript file manually
I want to (manually) insert additional postscript commands in a postscript file that was converted from a PDF file via ghostscript’s pdf2ps. For the purpose of testing I created a PDF file from the following file using…

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Converting PDFs to images in Python with Poppler, but Poppler doesn't register as being in PATH?
I have very little to say about this issue so hopefully this is a known problem and I'm just bad at finding previous threads about it. In any case, as the title states, I'm trying to convert PDF files to sets of images in bulk (for right now I'd…

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