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On Ubuntu 14.04, I followed https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/44104/861.

First install pax package.

$ sudo tlmgr install pax

Then run /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl --install. Note I have to specify the perl script's full path, because it isn't found otherwise. This downloads and installs PDFBox, a Java library necessary for using pax. But I had this error "Installation failed, because PDFBox library cannot be found!". 

$ sudo /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl --install

...
* Downloaded: $TEXMFVAR/scripts/pax/PDFBox-0.7.3.zip
Archive:  $TEXMFVAR/scripts/pax/PDFBox-0.7.3.zip
  inflating: $TEXMFVAR/scripts/pax/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar  
* Unpacked: $TEXMFVAR/scripts/pax/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar
texhash: Updating /tmp/$TEXMFVAR/ls-R... 
texhash: Done.
!!! Error: Installation failed, because PDFBox library cannot be found!

The perl script also creates a directory $TEXMFVAR under my current dir with following content:

$ ls \$TEXMFVAR/*
$TEXMFVAR/ls-R

$TEXMFVAR/scripts:
pax

and the pdfbox library is installed as \$TEXMFVAR/scripts/pax/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar, although not found.

TEXMFVAR is used in the script pdfannotextractor.pl. I guess the perl script doesn't find the proper value of TEXMFVAR, and /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var may be the right value? Then I want to pass this value to pdfannotextractor.pl by

$ TEXMFVAR=/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var sudo -E /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl --install

...
* Downloaded: /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/scripts/pax/PDFBox-0.7.3.zip
Archive:  /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/scripts/pax/PDFBox-0.7.3.zip
  inflating: /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/scripts/pax/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar  
* Unpacked: /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/scripts/pax/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/ls-R... 
texhash: Done.
!!! Error: Installation failed, because PDFBox library cannot be found!

Now it is installed to the intended directory as /usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-var/scripts/pax/lib/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar, but still can't be found.

Thanks.

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    I somehow have the feeling that this question would be better suited at AskUbuntu. You are mentioning the path business, is it possible that this is the cause and logging off/in might be the whole trick? – Johannes_B May 08 '15 at 19:13
  • I can't log off now. – Tim May 08 '15 at 19:14

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