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Install Poppler from source on Heroku
cd /app/
wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.10.91.tar.gz
cd fontconfig-2.10.91
tar -xzf fontconfig-2.10.91.tar.gz
./configure
make
cd /app/
wget http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.22.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf poppler-0.22.1.tar.gz
cd poppler-0.22.1
FONTCONFIG_LIBS="-L/app/fontconfig-2.10.91/src/.libs/ -lfontconfig" FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS="-I/app/fontconfig-2.10.91/" ./configure
make
/app/poppler-0.22.1/utils/pdftotext your.pdf
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haagen commented May 29, 2015

You should switch line 3 and 4! Otherwise it works just fine! Thanks!

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