[poppler] pdftotext feature request: user-specified toUnicode-like tables

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Jun 11 15:40:47 PDT 2013


El Dimecres, 12 de juny de 2013, a les 00:34:26, Ihar `Philips` Filipau va 
escriure:
> On 6/11/13, Jeff Lerman <jclerman at jefflerman.net> wrote:
> > Yes, indicating words is an advantage - but failing to indicate that a
> > given character in a word is in a given font is a bug.
> 
> This is about right time to tell you the thing: focus of poppler is
> the on-screen representation of the PDF, not helping extracting
> information from the PDFs. Otherwise, year ago I would have flooded
> the place with patches. :D

Well, that's a self fulfilling profecy, you think that area is not important 
so you never send the patches and that area never gets love and the circle 
never ends.

If you have patches that make sense, send them.

Cheers,
  Albert


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