https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159575
Bug ID: 159575
Summary: Add --page (or similar) command line argument for
opening and converting files/text extraction, and
search argument for opening
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.9.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
This request is primarily about allowing better integration of Writer with
search tools like Recoll, ripgrep-all, etc. I admit this is likely a niche use
case.
Right now, there are the following issues with the command line interface (to
the best of my knowledge):
- Text extraction via --text (or the equivalent --convert-to) does not contain
separators between pages, so there is no way for an indexer to collect page
number during indexing.
- This is possible for PDFs as pdftotext from poppler-utils insert
separators between pages, and also have a page range arguments, allowing
page-by-page text dump.
- I find the second option (explicit page number command line arguments) to
be clearer in what behaviour to expect. For instance, I don't know what
happens if the separator sequence appears in PDF content - does pdftotext
escape the sequence?
- No way to ask Writer to jump to a specific page when opening document file.
- This is possible for PDFs as most PDF viewers accept a page argument to
open to.
- Passing page number when launching a PDF viewer is the primary way for
search tools to make user experience as smooth as possible.
- No way to ask Writer to begin a search.
- This is possible for PDFs as most PDF viewers accept a search argument at
launch.
- This is a step further from above, but some search tools (namely Recoll)
try to jump to the search result (or as close as possible) by also
picking
a word to search for on top of picking a page to go to.
Suggested additions:
- Page number arguments for start and end page range for text extraction (or
conversion in general).
- Page number argument to open to at launch.
- Argument to specify string to search for at launch. This argument is
processed
after the above page number argument.
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Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
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