I have received a PDF file which embeds (hundreds of) documents, which I can access directly using the “Embedded files” function in
okular(but I have not found an equivalent inevince):
These documents are linked with specific text elements in the PDF file, using a hyperref, which is convenient to find which spreadsheet corresponds to what… However these links are apparently javascript scripts:
When clicking any of these links in either
okularorevince, nothing happens. Right click inevinceoffers a menu which seems unaware of the existence of a link, inokularit only offers toFollow this linkbut again nothing happens.Is there anyway to make these links work in any linux PDF tool, and if not, is there any way to print out the script corresponding to a given link, so that I can identify the corresponding file?
Alternatively, can I bulk-export all embedded documents for automatic processing? (
grepping my way to the relevant data…)
Answer
Your best bet is probably extracting the embedded files and then using something like a web browser which knows how to handle JavaScript links properly.
You can extract embedded files using pdfdetach, which should be available in the poppler-utils package in your system.
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Source : Link , Question Author : Joce , Answer Author : theJack
