README

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Main process:
file.xps + xpstopdf => file.pdf + textract => file.txt

Installation

MacOS Sierra 10.12
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• Dependencies

  # MacOS Sierra 10.12
  brew install poppler antiword unrtf tesseract swig pkg-config

  # Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  apt-get update
  apt-get -y install build-essential gcc make libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config libpulse-dev 
  apt-get -y install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
  apt-get -y install antiword unrtf libjpeg-dev poppler-utils pstotext flac tesseract-ocr ffmpeg lame libmad0 libsox-fmt-mp3 sox swig zlib1g-dev

• Install libgxps

  # MacOS Sierra 10.12
  brew install libgxps

  # Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  apt-get -y install libgxps-utils

• Install textract

  • Set up python venv

    conda create --name xps2pdftxt python=3.6
    source activate xps2pdftxt
    pip install --upgrade pip

  • Install package from pip

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lzsdodo/xps2pdftxt/master/requirements.txt
    pip install -r requirements.txt
    # or 
    pip install textract==1.5.0

• Check if both are succeed installed

  which xpstopdf
  >>> /usr/local/bin/xpstopdf     # MacOS
  >>> /usr/bin/xpstopdf           # Ubuntu

  which textract
  >>> /path/to/venvs/xps2pdftxt/bin/textract   # Virtual environment

Run Script

• Download script

  wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lzsdodo/xps2pdftxt/master/run.sh
  chmod a+x ./run.sh

• Move files to specific folder

  mkdir -p ./xps
  mv /path/*.xps ./xps
  

• Run

  # Only one arguments
  ./run.sh <xps_dir>
  # e.g.
  ./run.sh xps

• Output

  xps
  |____01.xps
  |____02.xps
  |
  |____output
       |
       |____pdf
       |    |____01.pdf
       |____txt
       |    |____01.txt
       |
       |____done_xps
       |    |____01.xps
       |____err_xps
       |    |____02.xps
       |
       |____done.log
       |____err.log
  

Reference

• libgxps: xpstopdf
• python: textract