Re: Convert PDF to text

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don

Probably I was the one who said Poppler will not install with yum - I 
looked at the list of installed and available packages in Open Source 
Package Management (OSPM) when connected with a 7.6 machine - Poppler 
does not seem to be there, unless it uses a different name.

Someone else mentioned Ghostscript, as did I - it can do some of what 
you need, I believe. We used it to generate PCL from PDF files, it did 
fine, we didn't have any weird PDF-ish stuff. That person mentioned 
another tool, I can't say if it's in the OSPM.

Jack Woehr mentioned pypdf - some Python component, I assume - I did not 
see it listed separately in OSPM, maybe it's part of another python package.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.cW8DDgxI.raSwjvav@centurylink.net> CAAC 
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023

On 6/16/2025 4:26 PM, Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
>     Thanks Patrik,
>
>     I thought I read somewhere that the Poppler tools would not install with
>     yum on IBMi ?
>
>     Thanks for the link, I will give it a go.
>
>     Have you, or anyone installed and used these tools ?
>
>     Thanks
>     Don
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>     Hello Don,
>
>     Am 16.06.2025 um 09:12 schrieb Don Brown via MIDRANGE-L
>     <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>     > 1. Does anyone have a recommended solution to achieve converting a pdf
>     to text. I am after a php or native rpg ish solution. Not python please.
>
>     I'd use the pdftotext command from the poppler-utils package in PASE. I
>     assume the poppler-utils package is available for installation via yum.
>
>     [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)
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>     :wq! PoC
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