Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:07:17 -0700 Van Snyder wrote: Hello Van, >Where does okular keep its settings? In ~/.config/ Look for files; okularrc okularpartrc okular-generator-popplerrc -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-04 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 09:12 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 03/06/2025 05:15, Van Snyder wrote: > > I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of > > the > > standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently > > have. > > > > Lately when I do a search or click a

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 03/06/2025 05:15, Van Snyder wrote: I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bu

clip on / flip up reading glasses (was: Re: PDF viewer for elderly)

2025-06-03 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, June 03, 2025 03:49:49 AM Chris Green wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals since my 30's. > > Also have wicked astigmatism correct that eliminates trying to use "off > > the shelf" "reading glasses". I also wear trifocals, and have astigmatism. They make

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-03 Thread local10
Jun 3, 2025, 08:15 by van.sny...@sbcglobal.net: > That works fine for me too. But as I wrote the problem arises when I search > for something, or click on an internal link in the document, such as a > bibliographic citation or figure number or equation number. It used to work > fine until a few

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-06-03 at 06:06 +0200, local10 wrote: > On 3/6/25 06:15, Van Snyder wrote: > > > > I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part > > > of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I > > > currently have. > > > > > > Lately when I do a search or click a

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-03 Thread Chris Green
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 6/2/25 2:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses > >> might help. > > > > I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about > > reading glasses. 🙂 > > > > ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread local10
died. >> > >> I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule >> > >> 5"x7" manual. >> > >> Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. >> > >> >> > >> *HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated im

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-02 Thread local10
On 3/6/25 06:15, Van Snyder wrote: >> I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the >> standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. >> >> Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't >> display the correct page. Is this a

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread David Wright
>> I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule > > >> 5"x7" manual. > > >> Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. > > >> > > >> *HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated image. > > >> All other tex

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/25 06:15, Van Snyder wrote: I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bug? O

Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-02 Thread Van Snyder
I've been using okular for many years, mostly because it's part of the standard Debian install. Version 22.12.3 is the one I currently have. Lately when I do a search or click a link to another page, it doesn't display the correct page. Is this a known bug? Or is it a feature? Thanks for mentioni

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/25 03:44, Richard Owlett wrote: If RETIREMENT isn't for learning, "What use is it?" I believe that the whole of life is an education, for people willing to learn. "The more we know, the more we know the little we know." .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800)

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 14:44 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > After my initial post, I discovered readability of the dim grey type > was > in some sense easier when blew up image further by choosing "Fit > Width" > rather than "Fit Height" in Atril. Try settings like +200% in Okular.

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread debian-user
t; manual. > >> Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. > >> > >> *HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated image. > >> All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey. [snip] > > If it's text in PDF, maybe LibreOffice can help. I found the

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 6/2/25 2:25 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 ROFL - Been wearing tri-focals since my 30's. Also have wicked astigmatism correct

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
LD text is in a saturated image. All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey. Is the a PDF reader in Debian repository that will coerce ALL text to appear as a saturated black? I assume ATT set things up to treat everything as an image. If I get something with readable characters, all illustratio

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/25 03:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 Stefan Sometimes, the obvious might not occur to us. Due to a persistent

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Perhaps, for the hardcopy manual, buying a pair of reading glasses > might help. I think it's safe to assume that people above 50 years old know about reading glasses. 🙂 Stefan

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
inally readable pale grey. Is the a PDF reader in Debian repository that will coerce ALL text to appear as a saturated black? I assume ATT set things up to treat everything as an image. If I get something with readable characters, all illustrations will just be black blobs. That is OK as paper

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Van Snyder
saturated image. > All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey. > > Is the a PDF reader in Debian repository that will coerce ALL text to > appear as a saturated black? > I assume ATT set things up to treat everything as an image. > If I get something with readable ch

PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm over 80. My only phone just died. I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule 5"x7" manual. Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. *HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated image. All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey. Is the

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/04/2025 15:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: ISO 14289 is an accessibility standard for PDF. It allows for the creation of a "Tagged PDF" where semantic information, including table structures (, , , ), can be emb

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/4/25 16:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Informal advice is always "Write it in Word, then let Word convert it to PDF" That works if the author is disciplined and knows how to tag, heading orders and so on - but it can still produce tagged PDFs that are nominally accessible to scre

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:48:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a > &

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-23 Thread tomas
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a > > dedicated structure to explicitly mark tables? It would be the best > > source fo

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/04/2025 09:56, jeremy ardley wrote: On 23/4/25 10:37, Max Nikulin wrote: Accidentally I have noticed [...] <https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/page.html#Page.find_tables> I have not tried it [...] One underlying problem with tabular data in pdf is the order the text is e

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-23 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote: By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a dedicated structure to explicitly mark tables? It would be the best source for data extraction. ISO 14289 is an accessibility standard for PDF. It allows for the creation of a "T

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-22 Thread jeremy ardley
ons to manipulate simple PDF objects and one quite sensitive to heuristics and implementation details. One underlying problem with tabular data in pdf is the order the text is encoded. Consider PDF as basically Postscript on steroids but underlying it is the same algorithm of "go to a l

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/04/2025 09:51, jeremy ardley wrote: Some LLM can also accept pdf for input but you'd need to snip out the pages you are interested in. I consider that slightly more risky as what you see rendered or printed and what some programs see internal to the pdf varies I would be great

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-21 Thread jeremy ardley
so grey on grey nowadays … I used The Take Screenshot desktop application with the PDF suitably zoomed. If you only have command line you can use some application to convert the  pages to png Some LLM can also accept pdf for input but you'd need to snip out the pages you are interested

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-21 Thread David Wright
6&107) of > > [ > > https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf > > ]. > > > > Suggestions? > > > > TIA > > > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page > and ask a good L

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-19 Thread Titus Newswanger
On 4/18/25 02:53, jeremy ardley wrote: Obviously you've never had to herd junior developers. I have had to. It sucks and productivity is woeful due to all the checking and unit testing and such, plus they quite often have comprehension problems and are unable to follow instructions - and I'

xdf IS solution to "How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?"

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
accumulated in the editor's buffer. (Two pages of the report, so copy, paste, copy, paste.) Someone recalled you saying xpdf was your default PDF viewer. Correct. In mc, if I press Return (≡Open) when the cursor is on a PDF, it opens in xpdf. If I press F3 (≡View), then it opens in zathur

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/4/25 22:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TF

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
s/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf ]. Suggestions? TIA I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and ask a good Large Language Model to give you a table. I could not find 4.14 but converted table 4.12 instead into markdown and csv using Claude 3.7 Son

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread Richard Owlett
(Two pages of the report, so copy, paste, copy, paste.) Someone recalled you saying xpdf was your default PDF viewer. Correct. In mc, if I press Return (≡Open) when the cursor is on a PDF, it opens in xpdf. If I press F3 (≡View), then it opens in zathura. F4 (≡Edit) can toggle between the raw text

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread jeremy ardley
On 18/4/25 15:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I see my colleagues now writing programs with LLMs. I don't look forward to the day I'll have to debug a larger corpus of this mess. Obviously you've never had to herd junior developers. I have had to. It sucks and productivity is woeful due to all

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-18 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 01:35:19PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 18/4/25 13:10, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and > > > ask > > > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. > > After this, I'd double-check each indivi

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread jeremy ardley
On 18/4/25 13:35, jeremy ardley wrote: Another strategy is to use two models and compare the outputs or use the same model in two sessions. I tried the two model approach and compared perplexity with Claude Sonnet and asked Claude Sonnet to check the results. *Query* I have checked you

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread jeremy ardley
e. I've been doing this for a couple of years now scanning bank statements etc. I had previously tried the online pdf to text servers with varying results. I also tried using PDF to text programs that often got poor results for tabular data as what you see is not necessarily how it is store

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 11:09:52AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: [...] > I'm not sure if it is mentioned but just take a picture of each page and ask > a good Large Language Model to give you a table. After this, I'd double-check each individual number. You'll never know if they are being made up,

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread David Wright
. (Two pages of the report, so copy, paste, copy, paste.) > Someone recalled you saying xpdf was your default PDF viewer. Correct. In mc, if I press Return (≡Open) when the cursor is on a PDF, it opens in xpdf. If I press F3 (≡View), then it opens in zathura. F4 (≡Edit) can toggle between

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On 4/17/25 21:24, Richard Owlett wrote: Selected text can be copied to the clipboard (with the edit/copy menu item). On X11, selected text will be available in the X selection buffer. Where is a Toolbar with a sidebar button? I've never seen such a "sidebar button". However, on the left ma

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-17 Thread Richard Owlett
ke to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf ]. Suggestions? Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV delimiter

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread David Wright
> What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the > > > two > > > > left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of > > > > [ > > > > > > > https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Kent West
On 4/16/25 7:21 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 4/15/25 11:01 AM, Kent West wrote: $ pdftotext -f 106 -l 107 TFP2021.pdf TFP2021.txt As I replied to Nicolas I'll try both that and also a run with the "-layout" option. I typed the wrong line here (I should have copied/pasted

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/ TFP2021.pdf ]. Suggestions? TIA I normally open the document in Atril Document Viewer, select the content I want, copy the selection to the clipboard, open LibreOffice Calc (opens with a new spreadsheet), and paste.  The crux is whatever file structure the

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
p;107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf ]. Suggestions? Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV delimiters using a powerful editor. The rectangle selection of Vim might be useful. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-16 Thread Richard Owlett
ult/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf ]. Suggestions? Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV delimiters using a powerful editor. Had followed similar logical path. *BUT* I had run pdf2txt which *does not* have a "-layout" option. The result was defecti

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-15 Thread David Christensen
On 4/15/25 07:19, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/ TF

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-15 Thread Nicolas George
Richard Owlett (HE12025-04-15): > I don't know how to approach the problem. > What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two > left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of > [ > https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/re

How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
I don't know how to approach the problem. What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of [ https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf ]. Suggestions? TIA

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-15 Thread Kent West
p;107) of > > [ > > > https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf > > ]. > > > > Suggestions? > > Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV > delimiters using a powerful editor. The rectangle

Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just received a 68 page PDF document. I don't know proper terminology but visually it resembles an outline in many of it's items are multiple paragraphs. The points are "collapsible". When everything is collapsed, the document index is 9 lines. Due to vision/pe

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-20 Thread Yassine Chaouche
https://orgmode.org/org-info.js But again, this is for org documents... A possible workflow is to transform the PDF into text, then define headers in the generated text, then use org-mode with the provided script to generate a foldable HTML out of that (org-mode) text document. Or you could feed the js fi

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/19/25 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*. I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports from org-mode documents, but sorry, I didn&#

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-19 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*. I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports from org-mode documents, but sorry, I didn't take any notes about it... Best, -- ya

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-25 Thread David Wright
It was insurance, lest I needed to use comma delimiters. Also, other people may have different tools, by choice or availability. > I am sure there should be ready to use tools that extract tables from > PDF and from aligned text. Out of curiosity I tried to create a small > python script to

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-23 Thread Max Nikulin
s both pdftotext and xpdf rely on poppler to do the work. The poppler library is a fork of xpdf. It is used by evince, okular, and some other PDF viewers. Since that time xpdf upstream and poppler codebase have been diverged significantly. Upstream xpdf has got GUI based on QT. Debian has the

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-23 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-23, Max Nikulin wrote: > > I am sure there should be ready to use tools that extract tables from > PDF and from aligned text. Out of curiosity I tried to create a small > python script to process text you attached earlier. It does not try to For previously created p

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-23 Thread Max Nikulin
p;/' -e 's/^ \+//' -e 's/ \+/\t/g' /tmp/es-7.txt is not perfect, but should be acceptable. I am sure there should be ready to use tools that extract tables from PDF and from aligned text. Out of curiosity I tried to create a small python script to process text you at

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 17:13:17 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 21:20 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries to download a PDF file as > > well. Cheeky thing! For both the 2006 and 2021 pages. I can't be

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-22 Thread songbird
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > in discussions about pdf utilities i've don't recall atril being mentioned > it's become my goto viewer perhaps because it is normally a part of the MATE desktop? i've been using it for years and so far no major issues that i&#x

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-22 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: >> > >> > I get: >> > >> > Access Denied >> > You don't have permission to access >> > "http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006"; on this server. >> > Reference #18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 >> > >> > https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.dd831002.174

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 03:59:55PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 21:20:45 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: [...] > > > I get: > > > > > > Access Denied > > > You don't have permission to access > > > "http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006"; on this se

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread fxkl47BF
in discussions about pdf utilities i've don't recall atril being mentioned it's become my goto viewer

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
n this > > server. > > Reference #18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 > > > > https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 > > Wacky! > > For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries to download a PDF file as > well. Cheeky thing! For both the 200

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
06"; on this server. > > Reference #18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 > > > > https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 Perhaps it depends on browser settings (and which browser), or perhaps on where you are (your timezone is unknown), or perhaps on yo

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread David Wright
regions. Sometimes it is convenient since this > strategy does not depend on order of objects inside PDF files. Yes, xpdf is my goto PDF viewer, and I should have mentioned that in the post. > Other PDF viewers allows to conveniently select contiguous spans of > text, e.g. end of so

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread debian-user
gt; You don't have permission to access > "http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006"; on this server. > Reference #18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 > > https://errors.edgesuite.net/18.dd831002.1740148075.35e89c97 Wacky! For me, FF opens a normal web page and tries

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-21 Thread Greg
On 2025-02-21, David Wright wrote: > >> > > [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 >> > > Table ES-1. Thrifty Food Plan market baskets, quantities of food >> > >purchased for a week, by age-gender group, 2006 > > I don't read PDFs /in/ the browser: it downloads it i

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread Max Nikulin
PDF files. Other PDF viewers allows to conveniently select contiguous spans of text, e.g. end of some line and beginning of next one. Unfortunately enough PDF files have pieces of text put in almost random order. At least in Firefox selection may work in a quite peculiar way skipping some

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Feb 2025 at 13:52:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 2/20/25 11:20 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] > > > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males g

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 2/20/25 11:20 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. I need only the first and last columns. Can someone point me in a suitable direction? TIA

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 20. Februar 2025, 15:08:27 CET schrieb Richard Owlett: > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. > I need only the first and last columns. > > Can someone point me in a sui

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] > Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. > I need only the first and last columns. > > Can someone point me in a suitable direction? > > TIA > > [1] ht

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Try pdftotext. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Alternative to Debian Repository - extract CSV formatted data from PDF

2025-02-20 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-02-20 14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. I need only the first and last columns. Can someone point me in a suitable direction? TIA [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp

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2025-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
I wish to extract CSV formatted data from a PDF document. [1] Page ES-7 has a weekly grocery list for males grouped by age. I need only the first and last columns. Can someone point me in a suitable direction? TIA [1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/thrifty-food-plan-2006 Table ES-1. Thrifty

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-14 Thread Linux-Fan
Loris Bennett writes: Hi, I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. I want to convert this email to a PDF file. [...] Does anyone have a better suggestion? If you can get your e-mail in .eml format, you could use a tool specifically targeted at converting e-

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 2/13/25 03:32, Loris Bennett wrote: Hi, I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. I want to convert this email to a PDF file. If I save the mail to a file I get: $ file einladung.txt einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text Does anyone h

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Richmond
On 13/02/2025 10:32, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. > I want to convert this email to a PDF file. > > You can print the file into a pdf from a web browser. Put file:/// into the location bar and navigate to t

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF (addendum)

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
I got this information from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line[1] where are shown other ways, too. Best Hans [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/27097/how-to-print-a-regular-file-to-pdf-from-command-line

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
Hi Loris, you wrote > $ file einladung.txt > einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text So you already have a simple textfile. Did you try the following? enscript einladung.txt -o - | ps2pdf - einladung.pdf Please note, "enscript" is a package which can easily be installed witrh ap

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Hans writes: > Easiest way for me: Just print into a file. The result is a pdf-file. How do you do that from Emacs? > However, do not know, if your printer driver can do this, but I suppose, most > printer drivers are able to it. > > Best > > Hans > > Am Donnerstag,

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Loris Bennett
> > Maybe you can find it in repos. 'paps' is indeed available for bookworm, which is what I have. However, I ended up installing the 'printing' package for Emacs, which allowed me to print from Emacs to a PostScript file, which I could then convert to PDF via 'ps2pdf'. But thanks for the suggestion anyway. -- This signature is currently under constuction.

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Rand Pritelrohm
On 2025-02-13 11:32:09, Loris Bennett wrote: > Hi, > [snip] > > Does anyone have a better suggestion? > [snip] Hello, I use with success 'paps' https://github.com/dov/paps Maybe you can find it in repos. Regards, Rand

Re: Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Hans
Easiest way for me: Just print into a file. The result is a pdf-file. However, do not know, if your printer driver can do this, but I suppose, most printer drivers are able to it. Best Hans Am Donnerstag, 13. Februar 2025, 11:32:09 CET schrieb Loris Bennett: > Hi, > > I am using Em

Converting UTF-8 email text to PDF

2025-02-13 Thread Loris Bennett
Hi, I am using Emacs' Gnus to display a buffer containing an email. I want to convert this email to a PDF file. If I save the mail to a file I get: $ file einladung.txt einladung.txt: news or mail, Unicode text, UTF-8 text I have tried the following approaches to converting to PD

Re: asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and > asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. > > I run it with this bash script: > > asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-pdf -b pdf \ > -a pdf-theme=binder \ > -a

Re: asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 2:13 PM Tom Browder wrote: > > I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and > asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. > > I run it with this bash script: > > asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-pdf -b pdf \ > -a pdf-theme=binder \ > -a

Re: asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 11:05 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 10:06:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and > > asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. > > [...] > > > `block (2 levels) in parse!' > >

Re: asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread tomas
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 10:06:10AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and > asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. [...] > `block (2 levels) in parse!' > /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/asciidoctor/cli/options.rb:87:in `encode': > &

asciidoctor-pdf

2024-10-26 Thread Tom Browder
I am running Debian 11 and trying to run asciidoctor and asciidoctor-pdf with no luck so far. I run it with this bash script: asciidoctor -r asciidoctor-pdf -b pdf \ -a pdf-theme=binder \ -a pdf-themesdir=./data/themes \ -a document_name=”Raku Guide” \ -o rakuguide-binder.pdf rakuguide

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-08-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:29 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html

TARDY response -- [Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]]

2024-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:22 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files  to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and

Re: PDF editor

2024-08-07 Thread coreyh
On 2024-08-07 09:27, Arbol One wrote: Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? do you mean CLI or windows tool for PDF editor? -- corey hickman

Re: PDF editor

2024-08-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 21:27:00 (-0400), Arbol One wrote: > Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? Perhaps you could summarise what you learnt, and what you feel you didn't learn, from the thread that you opened here six weeks ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/06/msg00

PDF editor

2024-08-06 Thread Arbol One
Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? -- */ArbolOne.ca/* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of students and volunteers dedicated to providing free services to charitable organizations. ArbolOne on Java Development is in progress [ Ă­ ]

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