On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM Richard Owlett <rowl...@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
