[poppler] Issues while running pdfimages from Poppler

[Jason Crain]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 04:59:51PM +0530, Manthan Jamdagni wrote:
> I am building Poppler on an EC2 hosts and I am facing few problems and wanted few clarifications regarding the same. I build poppler as suggested to get the utilities, the binaries are created successfully and build is successful but they fail to run with a couple of errors which are as follows - 
> 
> 1. error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>     I had libcurl.so.4 installed on my system so I copied it and renamed it to libcurl.so.3 which fixed this error.
> 2. error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory, now for this I have libjpeg.so.8 in my Ec2 host, 
>     I can again rename the shared library to make it work, but this is very hackish and I wanted some better solution.
> Is there a way to make poppler run with these new shared libs?

How did you manage to build poppler if you don't have those libraries
installed?

> I also had another query, so I encountered the above mentioned errors while running pdfimages, so I was wondering why is curl required for pdfimages to extract images out of pdf. Can someone also explain this to me?
> I am very new to this domain so pardon my lack of knowledge,

It's an optional feature. If built with libcurl, the poppler utils can
load a document over the internet.