[poppler] XML syntax error in PdfToText tool

Thu Nov 14 05:42:50 PST 2013

This is the contents of file output.xml generated by command pdftotext
-bbox -htmlmeta 'myfile.pdf' 'output.xml' :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Microsoft Word -
Preface&Contents_Advances_in_Lasers_and_Electro_Optics.doc</title>
<meta name="Author" content="Teodora"/>
<meta name="Creator" content="PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2"/>
<meta name="Producer" content="Acrobat Distiller 8.0.0 (Windows)"/>
<meta name="CreationDate" content=""/>
</head>
<body>
<doc>
  <page width="482.000000" height="680.000000">
    <word xMin="255.120000" yMin="190.576860" xMax="338.055540"
yMax="207.269700">Advances</word>
    <word xMin="344.000562" yMin="190.576860" xMax="359.331702"
yMax="207.269700">in</word>
    <word xMin="365.276724" yMin="190.576860" xMax="425.239584"
yMax="207.269700">Lasers</word>
    <word xMin="256.260624" yMin="207.256884" xMax="288.954240"
yMax="223.949724">and</word>
    <word xMin="294.884844" yMin="207.256884" xMax="363.168492"
yMax="223.949724">Electro</word>
    <word xMin="369.099096" yMin="207.256884" xMax="425.265216"
yMax="223.949724">Optics</word>
  </page>
</doc>
</body>
</html>

As You can see in line 3 tag <title> contains invalid character squence
with "&".  The title is extracted from myfile.pdf. CDATA or some kind of
htmlspecialchars is needed.

*--*

*Paweł Leń*

2013/11/14 suzuki toshiya <mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp>

> Hi,
>
> If you could post a sample XML file that you modified the
> output of pdftotext to fit the XML parser, it would be
> helpful for some kind people to develop a patch.
>
> Regards,
> mpsuzuki
>
>
> On 11/14/2013 10:04 PM, Paweł Leń wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have error when running:
>> pdftotext -bbox -htmlmeta 'myfile.pdf' 'tempFile.xml'
>>
>> The output xml have <title> tag on the begining of document (meta
>> section), error appears when title contains "&" character. Title field has
>> no CDATA and it is not quoted so it causes error in my xmllib parser. Can I
>> (or You :) ) fix it somehow?
>>
>> Beast regards
>>
>> *--
>> *
>>
>> *Paweł Leń*
>>
>>
>>
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