Bug 107419

Summary:	Allow page ranges in pdftohtml
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	ulatekh <ulatekh>
Component:	utils	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Patch to add functionality Patch to add functionality

Description ulatekh 2018-07-29 16:16:23 UTC

Created attachment 140875 [details] [review]
Patch to add functionality

I'm using pdftohtml to extract information from PDFs and organize the results into a database, so I had a chance to dig through the code.

The patch adds a "-pg" command-line option to pdftohtml, to allow noncontiguous ranges of pages to be specified.

I don't know what the policy is on using Boost inside of poppler, but I can hand-write a simple integer interval-set if it's a problem.

The "-pg" command-line option may be useful in other utilities, e.g. pdfseparate.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2018-07-29 18:01:52 UTC

Please don't use boost.

Comment 2 ulatekh 2018-08-04 18:50:24 UTC

That's too bad. I was hoping boost was considered one of the "standard components of modern Unix desktop environments", like mentioned in the README file.

In any case, the new patch has a custom-written interval-set, and uses strtok_r() instead of boost::split.

Comment 3 ulatekh 2018-08-04 18:50:46 UTC

Created attachment 140966 [details] [review]
Patch to add functionality

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 11:19:25 UTC

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