pdflatex: I am trying to show a page from pdf. Before i want to show, i want to check whether a word is present or not

Asked Jul 29 '20 at 17:47

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I am trying to show a page from pdf.

Before i want to show it using

/includepdfmerge[fitpaper]{./latex/test.pdf,2}

I want to check whether a word is present in page 2 of test.pdf or not. Based on that i want to do some changes

Is this possible

asked Jul 29 '20 at 17:47

Santhosh

I assume you mean \includepdfmerge but you give no indication of how that is defined, it is not a command I recognise. pdftex normally has no access to the internal structure of the pdf. – David Carlisle Jul 29 '20 at 17:57
@DavidCarlisle \includepdfmerge is defined in pdfpages package. – muzimuzhi Z Jul 29 '20 at 18:18
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A really indirect proposal: use Python's pdfminer to scrape the content of pdf for you. Therefore you should: 1) execute shell command (your Python script) from LaTeX 2) check whether the word is present with your script and save result to a file 3) read and parse the result with LaTeX. Or, if you are using LuaTeX, you can invoke Python from Lua. – Alan Xiang Jul 30 '20 at 17:05
read and parse the result with LaTeX ( how to do this) – Santhosh Jul 30 '20 at 17:39

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