Re: [orca-list] pdftotext help.

["Hwaen Ch'uqi" <hwaenchuqi gmail com>]

Greetings again,

I am providing a work-around solution that I just found. Rather than
use jstor's direct download link for pdf's, I am using the print
option to save a pdf to my hard drive. I suppose then that this makes
it a scan, because pdftotext could do nothing with it. Then I
installed and ran ocrmypdf on it, and practically all of the missing
content now shows!

hth for anyone else out there with a similar problem,

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 11/25/21, Hwaen Ch'uqi <hwaenchuqi gmail com> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> Following up on my earlier question about searching pdf files in
> firefox and other browsers, I am now using pdftotext. The results are
> generally fine, but I have noticed that pdf's from a certain site that
> I use quite often - namely, jstor - seem consistently to be missing
> characters. It almost seems as if pdftotext assumes certain margins
> that are narrower than the documents', as if a4 horizontal margins are
> being assumed rather than letter size. This is just a guess. Has
> anyone run across this kind of thing and come up with a solution? I
> tried playing with the -x and -y flags, setting them to 0, but the
> results are the same.
>
> I realize that this isn't precisely an orca question, but I thank you
> for any help.
>
> Hwaen Ch'uqi