Tribblix: manual page: djvutxt.1

DJVUTXT(1) DjVuLibre-3.5 DJVUTXT(1)

NAME

djvutxt - Extract the hidden text from DjVu documents.

SYNOPSIS

djvutxt [options] inputdjvufile [outputtxtfile]

DESCRIPTION

Program djvutxt decodes the hidden text layer of a DjVu document
inputdjvufile and prints it into file outputtxtfile or on the
standard output. The hidden text layer is usually generated with the
help of an optical character recognition software.

Without options -detail and -escape, this program simply outputs the
UTF-8 text. Option -detail cause the output of S-expressions
describing the text and its location. Option -escape uses C-style
escape sequences to represent nonprintable non-ASCII characters.

OPTIONS

--page=pagespec
Specify which pages should be processed. When this option is
not specified, the text of all pages of the documents is
concatenated into the output file. The page specification
pagespec contains one or more comma-separated page ranges. A
page range is either a page number, or two page numbers
separated by a dash. For instance, specification 1-10 outputs
pages 1 to 10, and specification 1,3,99999-4 outputs pages 1
and 3, followed by all the document pages in reverse order up
to page 4.

--detail=keyword
This options causes djvutxt to output S-expressions specifying
the position of the text in the page. See the manual page
djvused(1) for a description of the output format. Argument
keyword specifies the maximum level of detail for which text
location is reported. The recognized values are: page,
column, region, para, line, word, and char. All other values
are interpreted as char.

--escape
Output escape sequences of the form "ooo" for all non ASCII
or non printable UTF-8 characters and for the backslash
character.

REMARKS

Use program djvused(1) for more control over the text layer.

CREDITS