Bug#654527: Consider gpdftext

[Samuel Mimram <smimram@gmail.com>]

Hi,

After a quick testing of gpdftext, it seems that it only extracts the text from pdf files. However, I tend to use my reader to read papers with mathematical formulas and figures, which papercrop handles quite well, and are lost by gpdftext. So, gpdftext is far from being an equivalent of papercrop and I think that both programs deserve a package in Debian!

Cheers,

Samuel.

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/gpdftext

Reformatting tends to require manual checking of line endings, chapter
headings and other kinds of issues, so gpdftext does the conversion but
also provides a simple text editor presentation as well as a choice of
output PDF sizes.

If gpdftext fits your needs, feel free to close the RFP for papercrop
(#654527)

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