pdftoppm : Converts PDF pages to portable pixmap (PPM), PNG, or JPEG image formats.
To install the 32-bit version of Poppler on a 64-bit Debian-based system, enable the i386 architecture first:
Extracts embedded raster graphics/images directly from a PDF file.
Although there are newer versions of Poppler, version 0.68.0 is often favored in OCR automation (such as with Tesseract OCR) because:
Understanding Poppler-0.68.0-x86: The Core PDF Rendering Library for 32-Bit Systems
C:\tools>poppler-0.68.0\bin\pdftotext.exe -layout corrupted_file.pdf output.txt
pdftoppm : Converts PDF pages to portable pixmap (PPM), PNG, or JPEG image formats.
To install the 32-bit version of Poppler on a 64-bit Debian-based system, enable the i386 architecture first:
Extracts embedded raster graphics/images directly from a PDF file.
Although there are newer versions of Poppler, version 0.68.0 is often favored in OCR automation (such as with Tesseract OCR) because:
Understanding Poppler-0.68.0-x86: The Core PDF Rendering Library for 32-Bit Systems
C:\tools>poppler-0.68.0\bin\pdftotext.exe -layout corrupted_file.pdf output.txt
