It might be that "empty" lines are not completely empty but filled with spaces (or other non-printable characters). Try the following:
Replace "<blank>" and "<tab>" with literal blank/tabulator characters.
Still, the way you presented your expected output was a bit different: you wanted to retain a blank line before every paragraph starting with "Error". To accomplish this try:
The "^M" is a literal newline. You get it (in vi) by switching to insert-mode, pressing CRTL-V and then ENTER.
¿How can i remove blank lines between all lines in a long text file?
Example
WrongFile.txt :
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
CorrectFile.txt :
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Thanks in advance
:confused: (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I use translate web to get subtitle file in my langues . But in output file have bad blank lines .
I need scrip (i use debian ) to remove this blank lines .
szintax of my bad *.srt file :
------
number
blank1
number:number ---> number:number
blank2
text1
.
textn
blankS... (10 Replies)
I have a file with the below data, i would like to remove the end blank lines with no data. I used the below commands but could not able to succeed, could you please shed some light.
Commands Used:
sed '/^$/d' input.txt > output.txt
grep -v '^$' input.txt > output.txt
input.txt file... (5 Replies)
I have joined 2 files. Join command worked fine.
but the result showing extra blank lines. I tried to remove blank spaces by using awk (-- -42 RS= ORS="\n\n" file.txt) and sed (sed '/^ *$/d' file.txt)commands but didn't remove any
Any suggestions plz:D
123 tab .......
......tab .......234... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have been trying to remove blank lines from a file with no success. I tried using all the following options on the file:
tr -s '\n' < abc.txt
grep -v "^$" abc.txt
sed '/^$/d' abc.txt
sed '/./!d' abc.txt
awk '/./' abc.txt
The file is a text file. (11 Replies)
I really hope someone can help me with this. I have several php files from a forum that I run, that now for some reason have blank lines after every line. Is there an easy way to make a script that does the following:
* If there are consecutive blank lines, delete all of them except one.
* If... (9 Replies)
Hi,
I'm not a expert in shell programming, so i've come here to take help from u gurus.
I'm trying to tailor a csv file that i got to make it work for the LOAD FROM command.
I've a datatable csv of the below format -
--in file format
xx,xx,xx ,xx , , , , ,,xx,
xxxx,, ,, xxx,... (11 Replies)
When I 'vi' my test file I see some blank lines. However once I do :set list to display hidden characters, I see the empty lines literally like this:
^I$
How do I remove them? I cannot find a regex to match them. (3 Replies)
plz help me to figure it out
how i remove empty or blank files using cat command.
i will be very thankful if u send me this answer...
thanks (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mushfiks1
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pdf2txt
PDF2TXT(1) PDFMiner Manual PDF2TXT(1)NAME
pdf2txt - extracts text contents of PDF files
SYNOPSIS
pdf2txt [option...] file...
DESCRIPTION
pdf2txt extracts text contents from a PDF file. It extracts all the text that is to be rendered programmatically, i.e. text represented as
ASCII or Unicode strings. It cannot recognize text drawn as images that would require optical character recognition. It also extracts the
corresponding locations, font names, font sizes, writing direction (horizontal or vertical) for each text portion. You need to provide a
password for protected PDF documents when its access is restricted. You cannot extract any text from a PDF document which does not have
extraction permission.
OPTIONS -o file
Specifies the output file name. The default is to print the extracted contents to standand output in text format.
-p pageno[,pageno,...]
Specifies the comma-separated list of the page numbers to be extracted. Page numbers start at one. By default, it extracts text from
all the pages.
-c codec
Specifies the output codec.
-t type
Specifies the output format. The following formats are currently supported:
text
Text format. This is the default.
html
HTML format. It is not recommended.
xml
XML format. It provides the most information.
tag
"Tagged PDF" format. A tagged PDF has its own contents annotated with HTML-like tags. pdf2txt tries to extract its content streams
rather than inferring its text locations. Tags used here are defined in the PDF Reference, Sixth Edition[1] (S10.7 "Tagged PDF").
-D writing-mode
Specifies the writing mode of text outputs:
lr-tb
Left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
tb-rl
Top-to-bottom, right-to-left.
auto
Determine writing mode automatically
-M char-margin, -L line-margin, -W word-margin
These are the parameters used for layout analysis. In an actual PDF file, text portions might be split into several chunks in the
middle of its running, depending on the authoring software. Therefore, text extraction needs to splice text chunks. In the figure
below, two text chunks whose distance is closer than the char-margin is considered continuous and get grouped into one. Also, two lines
whose distance is closer than the line-margin is grouped as a text box, which is a rectangular area that contains a "cluster" of text
portions. Furthermore, it may be required to insert blank characters (spaces) as necessary if the distance between two words is greater
than the word-margin, as a blank between words might not be represented as a space, but indicated by the positioning of each word.
Each value is specified not as an actual length, but as a proportion of the length to the size of each character in question. The
default values are char-margin = 1.0, line-margin = 0.3, and W = 0.2, respectively.
-n
Suppress layout analysis.
-A
Force layout analysis for all the text strings, including text contained in figures.
-V
Enable detection of vertical writing.
-s scale
Specifies the output scale. This option can be used in HTML format only.
-m n
Specifies the maximum number of pages to extract. By default, all the pages in a document are extracted.
-P password
Provides the user password to access PDF contents.
-d
Increase the debug level.
EXAMPLES
Extract text as an HTML file whose filename is output.html:
$ pdf2txt -o output.html samples/naacl06-shinyama.pdf
Extract a Japanese HTML file in vertical writing:
$ pdf2txt -c euc-jp -D tb-rl -o output.html samples/jo.pdf
Extract text from an encrypted PDF file:
$ pdf2txt -P mypassword -o output.txt secret.pdf
SEE ALSO dumppdf(1)AUTHORS
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Wrote this manual page for the Debian system.
Yusuke Shinyama <yusuke@cs.nyu.edu>
Author of PDFMiner and its original HTML documentation.
NOTES
1. PDF Reference, Sixth Edition
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf
pdf2txt 08/24/2011 PDF2TXT(1)