On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett 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?
TIA
*A postscript
I had originally composed this message before discovering "pdfseparate"
had created output files that that appear to be what I intended.
I'm still interested in the meaning of the error messages as it may hint
as why ""pdftotext" wasn't *exactly* what I hoped for.
