On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), 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?
Why on earth are you trying to debug these errors from either the
PDF or pdfseparate? What's wrong with its output, apart from its size?
pdftotext can happily convert dianostic.pdf.
I would point out that pdfseparate produces a 3917970-byte PDF,
whereas pdftk's output is 39666 bytes. Their converted text files
are identical.
Cheers,
David.
Table A4.14. Thrifty Food Plan Market Basket for males age 71 and older, June
2021:
quantities, costs, and cost shares of Market Basket Categories a in weekly
amounts
Quantity b of each Cost of each
Cost share of each
Market Basket Categories Market Basket Market Basket
Market Basket
Category (lbs) Category ($) c
Category (%) d
Vegetables 9.13 10.37
20.67
Dark-green vegetables 0.82 1.49
14.38
Red and orange vegetables 1.95 2.71
26.12
Beans, peas, lentilse 1.72 1.53
14.78
Starchy vegetables 2.92 2.36
22.76
Other vegetables 1.72 2.28
21.97
Fruits 6.74 6.76
13.46
Whole fruit 4.62 5.05
74.82
100% fruit juice 2.12 1.70
25.18
Grains 3.59 7.43
14.81
Whole-grain staple grains (e.g.,
2.06 4.93
66.34
rice, pasta, breads, tortillas)
Whole-grain cereals (e.g.,
<0.01 <0.01
<0.01
oatmeal, ready-to-eat cereal) f
Refined-grain staple grains (e.g.,
1.45 2.25
30.31
rice, pasta, breads, tortillas)
Refined-grain other (e.g., cereals,
0.09 0.25
3.34
crackers, snacks)
Dairy 12.36 7.35
14.65
Low- and non-fat milk, yogurt,
12.27 7.23
98.31
soy alternatives g
Higher fat milk, yogurt, soy
0.08 0.12
1.69
alternatives h
Cheese 0.00 0.00
0.00
Protein foods 5.60 15.86
31.60
Meats 0.68 2.79
17.60
Poultry 2.33 5.85
36.87
Thrifty Food Plan • 2021
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