Re: [orca-list] pdftotext help.

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

Greetings Rastislav,

No, I did not know about that. Thank you for the tip! I will
definitely try it out as it sounds like it would save some steps from
my current process.

Thanks so much,

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 11/25/21, Rastislav Kish via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> wrote:
> 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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