<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi! I started using pdftohtml form Debian's poppler-utils package for document analysis and run across a problem that `pdftohtml -xml' can produce invalid XML on output (at least invalid for python xml tools). Test case: <blockquote> <pre># wget -q <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Studies/T-110.557/2002/papers/burlacu_mihai.pdf">http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Studies/T-110.557/2002/papers/burlacu_mihai.pdf</a> && \ pdftohtml -xml -i -c -f 1 -l 1 -noframes burlacu_mihai.pdf x && \ python -c 'from xml.parsers.expat import ParserCreate; ParserCreate().ParseFile(open("x.xml"))'</pre> <pre>Page-1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 2, in <module> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 45, column 63</pre> </blockquote> the problematic character is \x11 I'm running version 0.12 of pdftohtml, installed from Debian poppler-utils_0.12.0-2_i386 package. <blockquote> <pre>pdftohtml -v pdftohtml version 0.12.0 Copyright 2005-2009 The Poppler Developers - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org">http://poppler.freedesktop.org</a> Copyright 1999-2003 Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC </pre> </blockquote> how can i workaround this problem? best regards, Piotr Findeisen </body> </html>