05-27-2016
Just because you had a real file doesn't mean it had real contents. If it's a scanned PDF, something has to do optical character recogntion, and pdf2text does not. Hence the PDF's you get are empty.
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gpdf(1) User Commands gpdf(1)
NAME
gpdf - view PDF documents
SYNOPSIS
gpdf [gnome-std-options] [filename...]
DESCRIPTION
The PDF Document Viewer application is based on xpdf. PDF Document Viewer provides viewing features such as panning, zoom in, zoom out,
best fit, and fit width.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
filename The name of the to be .
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching the PDF Document Viewer
example% gpdf
Example 2: Opening the Document test.pdf in PDF Document Viewer
example% gpdf test.pdf
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of gpdf: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gpdf Executable for PDF Document Viewer.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-* |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |External |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
PDF Document Viewer Manual
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
gnome-std-options(5)
NOTES
Written by Niall Power, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003.
SunOS 5.10 1 Oct 2003 gpdf(1)