pdftotext: Extracts text from PDF using poppler

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The pdftotext package provides functions for extraction of plain text from PDF documents. It uses C++ library Poppler, which is required to be installed in the system. Output of Haskell pdftotext library is identical to output of Poppler's tool pdftotext.

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Pdftotext
- Pdftotext.Foreign
- Pdftotext.Internal

Flags

Automatic Flags

Name	Description	Default
xml-conduit	Parse metadata of PDF document properties using xml-conduit	Disabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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0.0.1.0, 0.0.2.0, 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1

Versions [RSS]	0.0.1.0, 0.0.2.0, 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1
Change log	CHANGELOG.md
Dependencies	base (>=4.11 && <5), bytestring (>=0.10 && <0.11), text (>=1.2 && <1.3), xml-conduit (>=1.8 && <1.9) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Copyright	2020 G. Eyaeb
Author	G. Eyaeb
Maintainer	geyaeb@protonmail.com
Category	Text, PDF
Home page	https://sr.ht/~geyaeb/haskell-pdftotext/
Bug tracker	https://todo.sr.ht/~geyaeb/haskell-pdftotext
Source repo	head: hg clone https://hg.sr.ht/~geyaeb/haskell-pdftotext
Uploaded	by geyaeb at 2020-06-11T13:31:32Z
Distributions	NixOS:0.1.0.1
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pdftotext

Usage

import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
import Pdftotext

main :: IO ()
main = do
  Just pdf <- openFile "path/to/file.pdf"
  T.putStrLn $ pdftotext Physical pdf

Flags

`xml-conduit`

pdftotext can extract properties from PDF document. One of them is metadata which is in form of XML document. If xml-conduit flag is set then the metadata is parsed using xml-conduit package, otherwise provided as text.

Internals

The library uses poppler via FFI, therefore internally all functions are of type IO. However, their non-IO variants (using unsafePerformIO) should be safe to use. Module Pdftotext.Internal exposes all IO-typed functions.

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Project is hosted at https://sr.ht/~geyaeb/haskell-pdftotext/ . The homepage provides links to Mercurial repository, mailing list and ticket tracker.

Patches, suggestions, questions and general discussions can be send to the mailing list. Detailed information about sending patches by email can be found at https://man.sr.ht/hg.sr.ht/email.md.