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Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>
Newsgroups alt.os.linux.debian
Subject Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages
Date 2025-07-25 08:30 -0500
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On 7/24/25 3:55 PM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> writes:
>> 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
> 
> I think the PDF is malformed, although not necessarily fatally so.
> 
> https://superuser.com/questions/1383547/when-i-am-trying-extract-text-from-pdf-using-pdftotext-command-in-linux-i-got
> 

Interesting read as is manpage for mutool {just installed}.

I have no control of the source document[1] as it a USDA publication.
Is there an independent site, which when given a URL will evaluate 
structural correctness [esp one whose evaluation would be worth 
reporting to USDA]?

[1]https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf

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