shell() and pdftotext

Brian Milby brian at milby7.com
Sun Jan 12 17:00:58 EST 2020


My guess is that shell can’t find your executable.  Try using full paths.

Thanks,
Brian
On Jan 12, 2020, 2:54 PM -0500, Hillen Richard via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina.
>
> Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/
> the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02
> and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“
> I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful!
>
> So I hopefully wrote in Livecode:
>
> ——————
> put "/users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf" into fn
> put "pdftotext " & fn into Kommando
>
> if there is not a file fn then
> answer „no SourceFile!"
> exit to top
> end if
>
> get shell(quote & Kommando & quote)
>
> answer it & return & the result
> ——————
>
> But extracting doesn´t work and I get the answer:
>
> /bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext /users ……pdf: No such file or directory
>
> and the result ist 127.
>
>
>
> Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options.
>
> With
> get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes
>
> I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“
>
>
>
> What is wrong? May you please help?
>
> Richard.
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