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Xpdf is an open-source PDF viewer for the X Window System and Motif.

Xpdf is an open-source PDF viewer for the X Window System and Motif. Xpdf runs on practically any Unix-like operating system. Xpdf can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs.

More details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf

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Getting the RIGHT word count of a PDF file

The response in this topic helped me understand why sometimes my PDF fails to find a word and why I keep getting different word counts when using different PDF word count programs. I decided to use xpdf. I converted it to text and added the -layout…
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How can I use pdftools in R to convert a large batch of PDF files to TXT files?

I'm trying to extract ~600 pdf files filled with tables to text format so I can do some data exploration. It looks like pdftool is my best bet to get the job done but the help files are brief. The closest tutorial I found uses xpdf. Is there a way…
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PDFtoTEXT not converting UTF-8 encoded text completely, especially the accented characters

I am working on a project which requires to convert PDF to text. The PDF contains Hindi fonts (Mangal to be specific) along with English. 100% of english is getting converted into text. The conversion of Hindi part is around 95%. Remaining 5% Hindi…
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Batch file to convert all pdf to text (with xpdf)

I would like to run a batch conversion in a folder with full of pdf files. I have using xPDF and this is the command prompt for a single file: c:\Test\pdftotext -layout firstpdftoconvert.pdf firstpdfconverted.txt Could somebody help please to do it…
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Xpdf pid missing in Awesome

I'm trying to do some magic with Awesome, generally I suffer from missing Xpdf pid. When I have any other window I'm testing, the client.pid field is OK, and contains the window's pid. However with Xpdf this field is always set to 0. Is there any…
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How to identify which clip paths apply to a path or fill in PDF vector graphics?

I am trying to extract vector graphics from a PDF file and create corresponding SVG files. I am using SVGOutputDev (https://github.com/immateriel/pdf2svg/blob/master/SVGOutputDev.cc‎) with xpdf library for this purpose. Now SVGOutputDev hasn't…
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pdftotext on Centos 6 64bit?

I have a HostGator VPS server, and want to be able to run pdftotext, part of xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html). After testing this out on my Mac, it worked fine, so I went to installing it on my VPS server. I followed the installation…
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shell_exec() not executing pdftotext command

I installed the required library and its working in terminal but not in my php file. My code is : $mypdf = shell_exec('/usr/local/bin/pdftotext test.pdf test.txt'); echo $mypdf; If I execute this command /usr/local/bin/pdftotext test.pdf test.txt…
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how to extract texts from PDFs using xpdf?

I have many PDFs in a folder. I want to extract the text from these PDFs using xpdf. For example : example1.pdf extract to example1.txt example2.pdf extract to example2.txt etc.. here is my code :
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xpdf (pdftotext) with language pack call from different directory

I am experimenting with xpdf (pdftotext) on a macOS Terminal. I use one language package (Japanese). Everything works fine if I call the executable like this (from the lib directory): lib kelly$ ./p2t -enc UTF-8 jp.pdf and my data structure…
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How to generate pdftotext same as pdf generated by xpdf in Laravel?

I am using spatie library of Laravel to convert pdf into text. I am using Xpdf. This is my code for conversion of pdftotext. $text1 = (new…
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pdftoppm converts only one first page of pdf

I need to convert pdf to pgm, and when I run the (example)command pdftoppm -f 5 -l 10 -gray input.pdf > output.pgm I am getting the first page of the pdf as output. This is even though I am clearly specifying first page as page 5. I am not…
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xpdf returns error (status 127) on Windows with R

I have downloaded and stored xpdf files to a directory in my C: disk: Moreover, I have included the path to the Environment paths: However, I still get an error message:
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How can I check if PDF page is image(scanned) by PDFBOX, XPDF

PDFBox problem on extract images. Hi, how I can check if pdf page is image and to extract that by PDFBOX library, there is a method to get images but if PDF Page is a Image it is not getting. could some one help me to solve this problem. Xpdf…
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How to differentiate between "text" PDFs and "image" PDFs in PHP?

I've recently set up a Linux server to be able to convert text-based PDFs to text by using the pdftotext command that's part of Xpdf as well as to convert image-based PDFs to text by using a combination of the gs (Ghostscript) and tesseract…
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