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Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Source: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xpdf

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Extracting background images from a PDF file?

I have a PDF file containing maps of the building I work in, here: http://www.libsys.und.edu/dev/FloorPlans_All.pdf The original source files have been lost, and I've been asked to extract the map images, preferably without the text and icons that…
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"No such file or directory" when the file is there

I'm trying to run XPDF on a linux (probably red hat) OVH shared server. I've managed to have ftp ssh access and put the 64 bits binaries onto a folder. The problem is : even though the files are there with the right permissions, if I try running it…
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pdftotext - Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

I am running pdftotext on a bunch of pdfs, and some of them throw this error: Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap I took a look at the outfiles, and they seem to look ok, so I'm not sure if it's a significant error, but I am…
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xpdf copy & paste and unicode

Since updating to debian jessie I have a problem with copy and paste from PDF files using xpdf: only letters/symbols contained in ASCII are copied correctly. All other symbols/letters are in some way garbeld. For example I have a PDF file containg…
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How do I use a for loop and output to a different directory

usage: pdftotext [options] [] I'm using pdftotext (xpft, usage above) to covert all pdfs in a directory (and subdirectories) to textfiles. It doesn't matter if structure is preserved or not I just want to write the files to…
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how to extract text from pdf with embedded subset fonts

Pdftotext of xpdf is working fine for normal embedded fonts file , but fails where embedded subsets fonts are there . Is there any workaround for this issue ?
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How to navigate using h, j, k, l (Vi-like) in Xpdf?

man xpdf says the following: Previous versions of xpdf included a "viKeys" X resource. It is no longer available, but the following bindings are equivalent: bind h any scrollLeft(16) bind l any scrollRight(16) bind k any scrollUp(16) bind j any…
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Text from pdftotext and alignment

I used texttopdf on linux to extract all the text from a multipage pdf, everything is fine, except that each page get a different alignment, although in the original pdf this is not the case, here is a sample from the first 3 pages: …
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Cygwin's xpdfReader's File open dialogue box takes several dozen seconds to appear

I use XpdfReader 4.0.4 on 2 corporate-imaged Windows 11 machines at work. Approximately 2025-05-15 to 16, XpdfReader's file open dialogue box on one of them started to take several dozen seconds to appear after pressing Ctrl+O. This is working off…
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How to install Xpdf on Centos 5.5

I'd like to install xPDF on a CentOS 5.5 server. No GUI, I really just need the console apps. Can anyone give me a brief guide?
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PowerShell Unexpected Token Error

Question: I am running the following script in Windows 10 via the PowerShell ISE cd C:\Users\xyz\Desktop\pdfs $FILES= ls *.pdf foreach ($f in $FILES) { "C:\Program Files\xpdf-tools-win-4.01.01\bin32\pdftotext.exe" -enc UTF-8 "$f" } I am…
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How to start xpdf(1) without the outline pane?

I am trying to configure xpdf(1) so that it doesn't show the outline pane by default. I've managed to set up a keybinding in my ~/.xpdfrc to toggle the visibility of the outline pane with this command: bind t any toggleOutline I wasn't able to…
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pdftotext giving scrambled output

if anyone could help I'd appreciate I'm trying to output text via pdftotext from number of pdf files. Unfortunately my output keeps ending up like this: "* * * $ * # 2 …
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