Show HN: Pdf to json based on xpdf

Posted by ldenoue on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:48PM
from the show-hn dept.

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Re:Show HN: Pdf to json based on xpdf by merb on Saturday February 11, 2017 @12:32PM (#13623606)

Should've used Popper-utils

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Re:Show HN: Pdf to json based on xpdf by vegetajs on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:08PM (#13620073)

$ pdftojson input.pdf output1.json pdftojson: command not found

Ubuntu 16.10

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Re:Show HN: Pdf to json based on xpdf by nikmobi on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:18PM (#13620118)

am I missing something? why would you assume it's included by default in Ubuntu?

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Re:Show HN: Pdf to json based on xpdf by ldenoue on Saturday February 11, 2017 @04:05AM (#13621832)

Right: you need to compile it first. And then copy xpdf/pdftojson to your binary path like /usr/local/bin/pdftojson so that it is found

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Re:Show HN: Pdf to json based on xpdf by pkaeding on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:15PM (#13620984)

I think you forgot the configure/make dance?

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