Bug#772637: poppler-utils: pdftotext keeps ligatures from the PDF file instead of converting them

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Oct 2 15:55:34 BST 2021


There's an upstream bug:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7002

"pdftotext and copy-n-paste from a document should expand ligatures
such as fi to the letters f and i."

Exactly this. But it was fixed in 2012. What happens with Debian?

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