I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current
and future goals.

Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt" comes
very close to what I want.

Having been surrounded by TECO-buffs in the 70's, comparing the output
of "pdftotext -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-b.txt" to the above
suggests an approach to resolving.

It involves being able to edit a *SINGLE* rather than all 100+ companion
pages.

I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got

Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
[multiple repetitions of those 2 lines
Syntax Error (3556857): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
Syntax Error (3866517): Bad FCHECK in flate stream

How/where do I find interpretation of those?

TIA

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Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for
later editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for
current and future goals.

Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt" comes
very close to what I want.

Having been surrounded by TECO-buffs in the 70's, comparing the
output of "pdftotext -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-b.txt" to the
above suggests an approach to resolving.

I don't understand the paragraph above, and especially what the mention
of TECO infers?

It involves being able to edit a *SINGLE* rather than all 100+
companion pages.

I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got

Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream
length Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect
stream length [multiple repetitions of those 2 lines
Syntax Error (3556857): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream
length Syntax Error (3866517): Bad FCHECK in flate stream

How/where do I find interpretation of those?

Good question that I'm not able to help answer, I'm afraid.

But looking at the messages suggests that you PDF file may not be
perfectly formed, so I suggest trying to validate it. There seems to be
no shortage of PDF validators online!

Another approach might be to try using one of the other tools that were suggested rather than poppler. They may produce clearer error messages.

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On 7/24/25 8:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:

I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for later editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current
and future goals.

Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt" comes
very close to what I want.

Having been surrounded by TECO-buffs in the 70's, comparing the output
of "pdftotext -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-b.txt" to the above
suggests an approach to resolving.

It involves being able to edit a *SINGLE* rather than all 100+ companion pages.

I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got

Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
    [multiple repetitions of those 2 lines
Syntax Error (3556857): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
Syntax Error (3866517): Bad FCHECK in flate stream

How/where do I find interpretation of those?

TIA

*A postscript

I had originally composed this message before discovering "pdfseparate"
had created output files that that appear to be what I intended.

I'm still interested in the meaning of the error messages as it may hint
as why ""pdftotext" wasn't *exactly* what I hoped for.

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Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2025, 19:24:37 CEST schrieb David Wright:

On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 09:13:02 (-0500), David Wright wrote:

On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:

I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for
later editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current

If you do not need to do this automatically, you also could load the 100+
files with pdfarranger, then mark all and unmark the two you want to extract.

Now delete the marked, the two unmarked will stay.

Save this one now with another name.

You can edit this one with okular (mayve evince, too).

Easy, peasy.

Best

Hans

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On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:

I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for
later editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current
and future goals.

Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt" comes
very close to what I want.

Having been surrounded by TECO-buffs in the 70's, comparing the output
of "pdftotext -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-b.txt" to the above
suggests an approach to resolving.

It involves being able to edit a *SINGLE* rather than all 100+
companion pages.

I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got

Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
[multiple repetitions of those 2 lines
Syntax Error (3556857): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3866517): Bad FCHECK in flate stream

How/where do I find interpretation of those?

Why on earth are you trying to debug these errors from either the
PDF or pdfseparate? What's wrong with its output, apart from its size? pdftotext can happily convert dianostic.pdf.

I would point out that pdfseparate produces a 3917970-byte PDF,
whereas pdftk's output is 39666 bytes. Their converted text files
are identical.

Cheers,
David.

Table A4.14. Thrifty Food Plan Market Basket for males age 71 and older, June 2021:
quantities, costs, and cost shares of Market Basket Categories a in weekly amounts

Quantity b of each Cost of each Cost share of each
Market Basket Categories Market Basket Market Basket Market Basket
Category (lbs) Category ($) c Category (%) d

Vegetables 9.13 10.37 20.67


Dark-green vegetables 0.82 1.49 14.38


Red and orange vegetables 1.95 2.71 26.12


Beans, peas, lentilse 1.72 1.53 14.78


Starchy vegetables 2.92 2.36 22.76


Other vegetables 1.72 2.28 21.97


Fruits 6.74 6.76 13.46


Whole fruit 4.62 5.05 74.82


100% fruit juice 2.12 1.70 25.18


Grains 3.59 7.43 14.81

Whole-grain staple grains (e.g.,
2.06 4.93 66.34
rice, pasta, breads, tortillas)
Whole-grain cereals (e.g.,
<0.01 <0.01 <0.01
oatmeal, ready-to-eat cereal) f
Refined-grain staple grains (e.g.,
1.45 2.25 30.31
rice, pasta, breads, tortillas)
Refined-grain other (e.g., cereals,
0.09 0.25 3.34
crackers, snacks)

Dairy 12.36 7.35 14.65

Low- and non-fat milk, yogurt,
12.27 7.23 98.31
soy alternatives g
Higher fat milk, yogurt, soy
0.08 0.12 1.69
alternatives h

Cheese 0.00 0.00 0.00


Protein foods 5.60 15.86 31.60


Meats 0.68 2.79 17.60


Poultry 2.33 5.85 36.87




Thrifty Food Plan • 2021 106


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On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 09:13:02 (-0500), David Wright wrote:

On Thu 24 Jul 2025 at 08:20:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:

I'm running Debian 12.8.
I have a 100+ page PDF document.
I wish to extract 2 of those pages, each to their own PDF file for
later editing.

I'm focusing on poppler-utils as it appears to offer tools for current
and future goals.

Doing "pdftotext -layout -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-a.txt" comes
very close to what I want.

Having been surrounded by TECO-buffs in the 70's, comparing the output
of "pdftotext -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf jul24-b.txt" to the above
suggests an approach to resolving.

It involves being able to edit a *SINGLE* rather than all 100+
companion pages.

I tried "pdfseparate -f 116 -l 116 TFP2021.pdf dianostic.pdf" and got

Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3557294): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length
[multiple repetitions of those 2 lines
Syntax Error (3556857): Bad FCHECK in flate stream
Syntax Error (3868069): Missing 'endstream' or incorrect stream length Syntax Error (3866517): Bad FCHECK in flate stream

How/where do I find interpretation of those?

Why on earth are you trying to debug these errors from either the
PDF or pdfseparate? What's wrong with its output, apart from its size? pdftotext can happily convert dianostic.pdf.

I would point out that pdfseparate produces a 3917970-byte PDF,
whereas pdftk's output is 39666 bytes. Their converted text files
are identical.

Cheers,
David.

[2nd attempt]

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