First install all these prerequisites for compiling:
sudo apt install g++ libboost-all-dev autoconf libfontconfig1-dev pkg-config libjpeg-dev libopenjp2-7-dev gnome-common libglib2.0-dev gtk-doc-tools libyelp-dev yelp-tools gobject-introspection libsecret-1-dev libnautilus-extension-dev
First download the encoding files (no need to compile these) to the current working directory
wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-0.4.11.tar.gz