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Is XPDF an alternative of poppler tools? #25
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poppler started as a fork of XPDF, is part of freedesktop and is frequently updated, so I see no reason why the XPDF implementation of pdftotext or pdfinfo would be superior. |
Thank you @kba for the explanation. But then both might work the same for a user, right? I was just thinking to mention somewhere that instead of poppler also xpdf could be used. It is an prerequisite, i.e. not our main focus, so 2-3 words in the README could enough. |
Yes, both will work but at least on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine, the |
See also https://github.com/zotero/cross-xpdf
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