[poppler] Retrieve all objects from a PDF file

[Nedim Srndic]

What is the preferred way to retrieve an indirect object from an object
stream? Is it possible that I have found a bug? This is really important
for me. 

Nedim

On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 14:09 +0100, Nedim Srndic wrote:
> I tried out Poppler 13 from Ubuntu 11.10 and I get the same results. As
> far as I understand, if I look for an object in XRef using fetch(), and
> that object is in an object stream, the XRef then uncompresses the
> object and returns it to me, so that I don't even know that it was
> compressed in the first place? If things don't work this way, what
> approach should I take? 
> 
> That being said, I tried this approach with both Poppler 7 and 13 and
> two PDF files with object streams. When I do an XRef->fetch() with
> generation number 0 and object number of an object in the object stream,
> I get a null object for all objects except the first one that is packed
> in the object stream. The first one isn't extracted fully. Is this a
> known issue? 
> 
> Nedim
> 
> On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 11:12 -0700, Josh Richardson wrote:
> > What kinds of objects are you interested in?  I have a version of
> > pdftohtml which I believe is not yet merged into the master repo that
> > extracts images and fonts.
> > 
> > --josh
> > 
> > On 10/31/11 9:16 AM, "Nedim Srndic" <nedim.sh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >Dear list, 
> > >
> > >I am using the Poppler library (in the src/poppler folder, no bindings,
> > >version 7 from the Ubuntu 10.10 repos) and would like to retrieve all
> > >objects from a PDF file. Currently, I am running a loop on XRef and
> > >getting all the non-null objects from it, but it doesn't seem to
> > >retrieve objects from object streams. What solution would you propose
> > >for this problem?
> > >
> > >Thanks, 
> > >Nedim Srndic
> > >
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