Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files

Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by voidmain0001 on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:31AM (#45568144)

How do you use qpdf for extraction when its README states “qpdf does not render PDFs or perform text extraction, and it does not contain higher-level interfaces for working with page contents.”

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Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by ratrocket on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:38AM (#45568209)

Not the person you're replying to, but when they said "extraction" I believe they're talking about extracting pages from a PDF (like "splitting" the PDF apart, page-wise), not text. At least that's a thing I've used qpdf for in the past.

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Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by BobaFloutist on Monday October 13, 2025 @02:42PM (#45571875)

Which is also what the "extract" button does in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for Professional Enterprise Customers or whatever they're calling it now, so it's arguably a term of art for PDFs.

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Re:Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files by kccqzy on Monday October 13, 2025 @07:52PM (#45574637)

You can render the PDF into QDF mode and then it is relatively easy to extract text just by searching for Tj and TJ operators.

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