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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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Convert only some pages from PDF to TIF with xpdf

I'm using this command to convert a PDF to a TIF image on stdout: convert -density 300 -depth 8 -compress lzw my.pdf tif:- If the PDF has multiple pages, how to convert only the first page?
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Installing shell commands on a web server

I'm running a website on a linux server and I'm trying to install pdfinfo (part of the xpdf package) in the terminal. I'm logged in to the SSH shell and I've unpacked the .tar file. Inside of it is the pdfinfo executable, however I can't seem to do…
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How to delete header and footer of pdf in xpdf

As the Title said,I get the data of PDF in xpdf(pdftotext),but it contains header and footer.Now I want to delete both of header and footer.How to make it ? Thank You.
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How to convert the pdf document to xml and get the section which contains the table data.

There is a pdf document,I want to convert it to xml or html. Since the pdf document contains some tables,when it have converted to xml or html,I can not know which is table data and which is text. I want to get tables data to store the…
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how to use XPDF on VPS with Zpanel?

I am trying to make a webpage to convert a pdf to text file using xpdf. Below is the php code to do it on windows using xampp.
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How can I install xpdf on a Godaddy Linux shared hosting server?

I'm having trouble determining if it's possible, based on the amount of access I have to my Godaddy server, to install XPDF. Could someone shed some light on this? Here's the link to XPDF. And here is info about the GoDaddy server. My goal is to…
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pdf strange characters on copying or with xpdf

on a linux server I'm using xpdf (whith php) to extract informations from pdf files On some files all is OK But on some others the text extracted is very strange ! When I see the pdf on acrobat reader I see normal text But when extracted I get…
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How to add find-previous in xdvi or findPrevious in xpdf for vi keybindings?

Is there a way to add a find-previous function in xdvi or a findPrevious function in xpdf? Those would be equivalent to a function that brings up the search dialog with the "Search backwards" option already checked. I need such functions in order to…
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Can pdfbox extract vector images?

As per my understanding, 1. .eps format images are vector images. 2. When we draw something in word (like a flowchart) that is stored as a vector image. I am almost sure about the first, not sure about the second. Please correct me if I am…
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XPDF pdftotext and page number handling

Using perl to utilize pdftotext for the purpose of extracting text from a pdf. Works great. My issue is that the pdf's I am reading are multi-page and I am looking for data on specific lines at the top each page. The following code dumps the entire…
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Is there a method to read pdf or doc document in wordpress?

I want to read pdf or doc document's text content in wordpress plugin. I downloaded xpdf and I used it to get content. But in wordpress plugin or theme I can't get the content. $filename = "try.pdf"; echo $filename; $content =…
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