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PDF to Text/RTF fails

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      Yeah, I have never got the conversion to work. I think it's probably an upstream bug.

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      • girishG girish

        Yeah, I have never got the conversion to work. I think it's probably an upstream bug.

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        @girish said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

        Yeah, I have never got the conversion to work.

        So I guess this shouldn't be marked as solved.

        @girish said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

        I think it's probably an upstream bug.

        If that's the case perhaps @froodle can help?

        I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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        • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

          @girish said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

          Yeah, I have never got the conversion to work.

          So I guess this shouldn't be marked as solved.

          @girish said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

          I think it's probably an upstream bug.

          If that's the case perhaps @froodle can help?

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          @jdaviescoates You can also try if running soffice --infilter=writer_pdf_import --convert-to txt:Text --outdir /tmp/invoice Invoice.pdf works . For me, it doesn't produce anything even on my laptop.

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            @jdaviescoates You can also try if running soffice --infilter=writer_pdf_import --convert-to txt:Text --outdir /tmp/invoice Invoice.pdf works . For me, it doesn't produce anything even on my laptop.

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            @girish said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

            @jdaviescoates You can also try if running soffice --infilter=writer_pdf_import --convert-to txt:Text --outdir /tmp/invoice Invoice.pdf works . For me, it doesn't produce anything even on my laptop.

            When I try that on my laptop I just get:

            Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
            

            I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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            • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

              @girish said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

              @jdaviescoates You can also try if running soffice --infilter=writer_pdf_import --convert-to txt:Text --outdir /tmp/invoice Invoice.pdf works . For me, it doesn't produce anything even on my laptop.

              When I try that on my laptop I just get:

              Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly
              
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              @jdaviescoates said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

              Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not function correctly

              I made this error go away by installing a whole bunch of packages. Some openoffice java support etc. I don't recall which ones now.

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              • girishG girish

                Yeah, I have never got the conversion to work. I think it's probably an upstream bug.

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                @girish this step has no OCR if that's what you're wanting, you would need to run OCR step first
                In that usecase this would only carry over the image file which txt wouldn't support
                However I can try debug this to see if I can reproduce if you are on about a pdf containing actual text
                Could very likely be issue on stirling pdf side

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                • F froodle

                  @girish this step has no OCR if that's what you're wanting, you would need to run OCR step first
                  In that usecase this would only carry over the image file which txt wouldn't support
                  However I can try debug this to see if I can reproduce if you are on about a pdf containing actual text
                  Could very likely be issue on stirling pdf side

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                  @froodle said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

                  However I can try debug this to see if I can reproduce if you are on about a pdf containing actual text
                  Could very likely be issue on stirling pdf side

                  I've tried numerous PDFs with actual text and all of them failed just resulting in a blank text file.

                  I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                  • jdaviescoatesJ jdaviescoates

                    @froodle said in PDF to Text/RTF fails:

                    However I can try debug this to see if I can reproduce if you are on about a pdf containing actual text
                    Could very likely be issue on stirling pdf side

                    I've tried numerous PDFs with actual text and all of them failed just resulting in a blank text file.

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                    @jdaviescoates confirmed txt has issue I'll be disabling that feature and add a fix to backlog

                    But rtf option of that page works fine for me (not in cloudron)

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                      Okay, on a positive note this app saved much time today and it worked perfectly well! 🙂

                      Had to fax a 5 pages doc through a virtual fax app I use (since we have no more phone landline for years). The 5 pages were scanned in 5 different jpg images but the virtual fax needed one single file, jpg or pdf, with the 5 pages inside.

                      Went to my Stirling PDF install; YES it can be done. I chose "Images to PDF" module, added the files and created a perfect PDF with the 5 pages in it, no error, ready to send through virtual fax. Stunning!

                      Ignorance is not an excuse anymore!
                      https://AutomateKit.com

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                        This can probably be closed since Text conversion has been removed from Stirling-PDF for now due to bug in LibreOffice
                        Only RTF remains

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