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Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages





On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> wrote:
I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later
editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current
and future goals.

Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt" comes
very close to what I want.

Having been surrounded by TECO-buffs in the 70's, comparing the output
of "pdftotext -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-b.txt" to the above
suggests an approach to resolving.

It involves being able to edit a *SINGLE* rather than all 100+ companion
pages.

I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got
> Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
> Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
>     [multiple repetitions of those 2 lines
> Syntax Error (3556857): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
> Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
> Syntax Error (3866517): Bad FCHECK in flate stream

How/where do I find interpretation of those?

<https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>.

Jeff 

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