Compared to modern versions (e.g., 24.0+), this version lacks:

To fully grasp this artifact, let's break down the naming convention:

: Extracts text content from PDFs into plain text files.

If your use case requires only text extraction, consider upgrading to a maintained fork like pdfcpu or qpdf .

wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.68.0.tar.xz tar -xf poppler-0.68.0.tar.xz cd poppler-0.68.0 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-x86 (adjust flags) make sudo make install

pip install pdf2image pillow