Bug 50739

Summary:	pdftohtml -xml fails to extract text that is extracted in pdftotext
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Petter Reinholdtsen <pere>
Component:	pdftohtml	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Petter Reinholdtsen 2012-06-05 09:21:14 UTC

When I convert
http://nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.8116520!offentligjournal02052012.pdf
to XML using

  pdftohtml -xml -noframes 1.8116520\!offentligjournal02052012.pdf

I get the following content-less XML file.  I find this rather strange,
as the PDF is searchable using xpdf, okular and evince.  Any idea where
the text went?  Anything I can do to get access to the text as XML?

This is the output I get:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pdf2xml SYSTEM "pdf2xml.dtd">

<pdf2xml>
<page number="1" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
        <fontspec id="0" size="18" family="Helvetica" color="#000000"/>
        <fontspec id="1" size="5" family="Helvetica" color="#000000"/>
        <fontspec id="2" size="5" family="Helvetica" color="#000000"/>
        <fontspec id="3" size="7" family="Helvetica" color="#000000"/>
</page>
<page number="2" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
        <fontspec id="4" size="6" family="Helvetica" color="#000000"/>
</page>
<page number="3" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="4" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="5" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="6" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="7" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="8" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="9" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="10" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="11" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="12" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="13" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="14" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="15" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="16" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="17" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="18" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="19" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
<page number="20" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
</page>
</pdf2xml>

This problem is also reported to Debian as http://bugs.debian.org/676238

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2012-06-21 03:43:01 UTC

This bug has been reported against poppler 0.12.4 (old), but it can be reproduced also with a newer poppler 0.18.4. I didn't try with 0.20.x though.

Note adding also -hidden to the arguments makes the text show up in the XML output.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 10:53:54 UTC

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