Scripal: prerequisites for common usage

Text tools

If you want to search in docx or PDF files using Scripal, external utilities are needed:

pandoc

install from https://pandoc.org/installing.html

on Linux type systems, the package is often found in the standard repository

Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/plucky/+package/pandoc

Debian: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/pandoc

Fedora: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/pandoc/pandoc/

Windows: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.5

under Windows: specify path to binary pandoc in config.frmReader or put binary in same folder as scripal

pdftotext (poppler-utils)

install from https://www.xpdfreader.com/pdftotext-man.html

on Linux type systems, the package is often found in the standard repository

Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/plucky/+package/poppler-utils

Debian: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/poppler-utils

Fedora: https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/poppler/poppler-utils/

Windows: http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html

under Windows: specify path to binary pdftotext in config.pdfReader or put binary in same folder as scripal