[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Victor Ivrii]

2010/11/3  <cfrees at imapmail.org>:
> On Wed 3rd Nov, 2010 at 09:32, Zdenek Wagner seems to have written:
>
>> You should report a bug in it, it is obviously improperly compiled. I
>> use it regularly even for books with 500+ pages.
>
> Very likely. But since it was compiled by me and I have no idea what to
> do about it, complaining about its being improperly compiled while
> potentially cathartic is unlikely to be productive.


Recompile from poppler?


>
> Best,
> Clea
>
>> 2010/11/3  <cfrees at imapmail.org>:
>>>
>>> On Mon 1st Nov, 2010 at 22:16, Karl Berry seems to have written:
>>>
>>>>   pdftotext is already part of TeX Live.
>>>>
>>>> For Windows only.   (As with many other generic tools.)
>>>
>>> I do have pdftotext (though not from TeX Live, obviously) but whenever
>>> I've tried to use it it has taken simply forever to produce any output
>>> even for quite small documents. I would not like to try this method on
>>> a paper of even 3,000 words - never mind 8,000 or more.
>>>
>>> - cfr
>>>
>>>>   BTW, pdftotext -layout yields amazingly good results.
>>>>
>>>> Yes :).
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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