Bug 83061

Summary:	pdftotext -htmlmeta should quote text content
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Jean-Francois Dockes <jf>
Component:	utils	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Pdf document with a title property, and a text body, containing HTML special characters

Description Jean-Francois Dockes 2014-08-25 12:35:04 UTC

Special HTML characters (<>&"') inside the main text or PDF metadata (e.g.: title) are not escaped in the HTML output, possibly resulting in invalid HTML.

This is trivial to reproduce, but, if you need a sample doc, just ask...

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-08-25 17:30:42 UTC

Having the file to reproduce will make it easier to fix, so yes, attach such a file.

Comment 2 Jean-Francois Dockes 2014-08-25 21:26:00 UTC

Created attachment 105255 [details]
Pdf document with a title property, and a text body, containing HTML special characters

The HTML special characters, should be replaced with character entities in the HTML output (< should become &lt; etc.) but they are not. As a result, some pieces of text disappear in the display (e.g. <un tag>), or bad HTML syntax results in unpredictable behaviour.

Comment 3 Jean-Francois Dockes 2014-08-26 05:48:54 UTC

Forgot: if someone is looking at this, the problem is also present for the "content" attribute of <meta> elements. Generally, no text should go from the PDF to the HTML document without being escaped.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-21 11:03:18 UTC

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