DJVUTXT(1)

💖 DJVUTXT(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is djvutxt, part of DjVuLibre-3.5, and it's literally the little icon that pulls the secret text out of your DjVu files. Pull up a chair 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

djvutxt — extract the hidden text from DjVu documents. yes bestie, the text was in there the WHOLE time 🙈

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

djvutxt [options] inputdjvufile [outputtxtfile]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So djvutxt decodes the hidden text layer of a DjVu document called inputdjvufile, and then prints it into outputtxtfile — or, if you didn't give it a file, straight onto the standard output. slay.

That hidden text layer? It's usually made with the help of some optical character recognition software. iykyk 👑

Now, the vibe check on output modes: without the -detail and -escape options, this program simply outputs the UTF-8 text. that's it. that's the whole girl.

• -detail makes it output S-expressions describing the text and its location 📍
• -escape uses C-style escape sequences to represent nonprintable non-ASCII characters 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --page=pagespec — tells it which pages should be processed 👯‍♀️ When this option is not specified, the text of all pages of the document gets concatenated into the output file. The page specification pagespec contains one or more comma-separated page ranges. A page range is either a page number, or two page numbers separated by a dash. For instance, specification 1-10 outputs pages 1 to 10, and specification 1,3,99999-4 outputs pages 1 and 3, followed by all the document pages in reverse order up to page 4. not me going backwards through a document 💀 iconic behavior fr fr.
• --detail=keyword — this option causes djvutxt to output S-expressions specifying the position of the text in the page 📌 See the manual page djvused(1) for a description of the output format. The argument keyword specifies the maximum level of detail for which text location is reported. The recognized values are: page, column, region, para, line, word, and char. All other values are interpreted as char. periodt ✨
• --escape — outputs escape sequences of the form "ooo" for all non ASCII or non printable UTF-8 characters and for the backslash character 🪄 very demure, very mindful, very ASCII-safe.

💜 REMARKS 💜

Use program djvused(1) for more control over the text layer 👑 she's the main character, djvutxt is the supporting bestie.

⭐ CREDITS ⭐

This program was initially written by Andrei Erofeev <andrew_erofeev@yahoo.com> and was then improved by Bill Riemers <docbill@sourceforge.net> and many others. It was then rewritten to use the ddjvuapi by Leon Bottou <leonb@sourceforge.net>. three glow-ups, one program, we love a collaborative queen 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• djvu(1)
• djvused(1)

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one is from DjVuLibre-3.5, dated 10/11/2001 🎀 go forth and extract that hidden text, you absolute legend 💖✨🦋