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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:40:31 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <stdin@niklaas.eu>
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Subject: Re: Reading PDFs on the command line (with misc/lesspipe)
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:29:45 +0200, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote:
> Since I use mutt to read emails on my server, I would like to
> read PDFs on the command line. How can I do that?

I'm using the pdftotext command, part of the xpdf package.
Its output can be redirected.



> I installed misc/lesspipe and -- as far as I can judge --
> configured it properly.
> 
>   $ echo $LESSOPEN
>   |/usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh %s
> 
> However, if I run
> 
>   $ less some.pdf
> 
> I still get an unreadable output of fancy symbols.

Probably there is no processing step included?




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