pdfinfo pdftotext Debian about zotero-standalone-build HOT 14 CLOSED

Zotero uses a modified version of pdfinfo that can write to a text file, so it can't just use the system version.

Update: As of April 2015, Zotero no longer uses modified binaries on OS X and Linux.

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Ok I found the modified pdfinfo here: https://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/tools/xpdf/pdfinfo.cc

I cannot find the modified version of pdftotext could you point me to it please?

Cheers

Mike

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We use the stock version of pdftotext on Linux, but we don't check for the system version since we need the modified version of pdfinfo anyway.

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If you're looking to avoid Zotero's built-in installation process for the PDF tools, you could perhaps require poppler and then bundle shell scripts in the expected locations within the Zotero data directory that called the system binaries and redirected pdfinfo's output to a text file as necessary. (You'd have to account for the architecture suffixes, though.) No guarantee that that would work, but you can look into it.

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Thanks for the tipps. I will investigate. I think for the moment I will just disable the installation of pdfinfo and pdftotext.

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Sounds good. We might just start bundling pdfinfo and pdftotext in Standalone, since those are platform-specific downloads anyway.

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This issue still exists. I'm not able to use system-wide ones, but there is no install button :(

I'll install standalone version from zotero's webiste to get those utils and then c/p in standalone directory

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I disabled the install button in the debian package. If you really want you can clone the repository, drop the patch to remove the button and build.

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@heiserhorn do you have any progress on that? still having the problem on jessy :(

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I have the same problem. Updates appreciated.

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As @kovanovic was suggesting, you can get the Zotero versions of each and place them in the data directory manually:
64 bit:
pdfinfo: https://www.zotero.org/download/xpdf/pdfinfo-Linux-x86_64-3.02
pdftotext: https://www.zotero.org/download/xpdf/pdftotext-Linux-x86_64-3.02
32 bit:
pdfinfo: https://www.zotero.org/download/xpdf/pdfinfo-Linux-i686-3.02
pdftotext: https://www.zotero.org/download/xpdf/pdftotext-Linux-i686-3.02

(rename to remove -3.02 and chmod +x)

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aurimasv, thank you for pointing this out.

Where are the sources of pdfinfo and pdftotext? the trac link is down.

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Where are the sources of pdfinfo and pdftotext?

pdfinfo: https://gist.github.com/dstillman/7ff988a98076dc61e008

The pdftotext code wasn't modified. (The hidden flag on the executable was enabled on Windows, but that's it.)

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If pdftotext was not modified it would be great if it would just find/use the default installed one by default (talking about e.g. Debian based install).

About pdfinfo.cc: it might be a good idea for users to provide a minimal script how to compile that modified version.

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