ilovezfs/pdftoedn

PDF processing tool to extract document data and save it in EDN format

pdftoedn

A poppler-based PDF processing tool to extract document data and save it in EDN format. It supports:

• Font and glyph remapping via user-defined font map configurations (in JSON format) to allow glyph substitutions for Type 1 or TT fonts with invalid/incorrect unicode tables and even embedded CID fonts with missing tables.
• Path data extraction.
• Transformed image output, written directly to disk in PNG format.
• Annotations.
• PDF outlines.

Usage

Process a pdf document and write its output to output_file.edn:

pdftoedn -o output_file.edn input_file.pdf

Further reading

Refer to the wiki for

• more usage examples.
• exit error code reference.
• installation instructions.
• output file format.
• overview of font map substitution and sample font configuration file.
• List of internal font maps and internal glyph maps.