[tex-live] apparent bug in detex
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Nov 3 02:09:46 CET 2010
On 3 November 2010 cfrees at imapmail.org wrote:
> On Tue 2nd Nov, 2010 at 20:24, Victor Ivrii seems to have written:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:04 PM, <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
> >> 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 :).
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> > On my intel macs (including 4 y.o. underpowered MacBookPro) works
> > almost momentarily
>
> This would likely still be faster than a G4 (should be, anyway) but
> when I say "slow" I mean really, really slow -
> go off for coffee, get distracted and watch a movie, make dinner and
> finally remember you left the computer doing something and pdftotext
> likely still hasn't finished. Usually, I just lost patience and aborted
> it. I think it did sometimes finish and seemed to extract the text OK
> but it would usually be quicker to open the file and type out the words
> into an editor, to be honest. And I never tried running it on an even
> small-medium sized pdf. Maybe a few paragraphs at most.
Are the programs pdffonts and pdfinfo also slow?
Regards,
Reinhard
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