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First, we need to open a shell to the PDF tools Docker container:

docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/pdf gkmr/pdf-tools:latest /bin/sh

Then we need to run the following commands:

cd /pdf
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Distrotech/ghostscript/distrotech-ghostscript-9.10/toolbin/extractFonts.ps
gs -q -dNODISPLAY ./extractFonts.ps -c "(/pdf/filename.pdf) extractFonts quit"
exit

Second, we need to open a shell to the font tools Docker container:

docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/fonts sandinh/fonttools:latest /bin/sh

Then we need to run the following commands:
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