Re: [orca-list] pdftotext help.

[Rastislav Kish <rastislav kish protonmail com>]

Hey there,

did you try mupdf-tools?


sudo apt install mupdf-tools

mutool draw -o output.txt input.pdf


I'm using it as the default option instead of pdftotext, though I can't
honestly recall why.

Sometimes it treats every line of the text as a paragraph and places
empty lines accordingly, I guess this is the consequence of how some
PDFs are made.

I have a Python script for text processing, which I usually let handle
these things, so it's not a big issue.


Best regards


Rastislav


Dňa 25. 11. 2021 o 23:14 Hwaen Ch'uqi via orca-list napísal(a):
> 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
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