[poppler] New entry for "programs using poppler"

Jeroen Ooms jeroen at berkeley.edu
Mon Nov 13 08:39:31 UTC 2017


On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>
> El dimarts, 7 de novembre de 2017, a les 11:29:25 CET, Jeroen Ooms va
> escriure:
> > Would it be possible to mention the R package 'pdftools' [1] on the
> > poppler website [2] under programs using poppler? The R package quite
> > popular among (data) scientists to extract text and data from pdf
> > documents such scientific papers or public records.
> >
> > [1] https://cran.r-project.org/package=pdftools
>
> Now that i look at that page, would you please fix your licensing information?
>
> Your code can be MIT but if you're using a GPL library the combination is a
> GPL result, i would appreciate if you could mention that.

The license applies to the files inside the R source package on the
webpage ( pdftools_1.5.tar.gz). The package only contains the
bindings, the user has to apt-get / yum / brew install poppler to make
it work.


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