uncaught decoder failure

[herrold]

Describe the bug
The decoder hits a character it cannot decode and segfaults, rather than gracefully erroring

To Reproduce
target file creating the issue is at:
http://gallery.herrold.com/stuff/Murray93DrunkAndDog.pdf

CentOS 7 with EPEL

[herrold@localhost prices]$ rpm -V python36-pdfminer
[herrold@localhost prices]$ rpm -q python36-pdfminer
python36-pdfminer-20160614-5.el7.noarch

[herrold@localhost prices]$ /usr/bin/latin2ascii Murray93DrunkAndDog.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/latin2ascii", line 130, in
if name == 'main': sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/bin/latin2ascii", line 125, in main
for line in fileinput.input(args):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/fileinput.py", line 250, in next
line = self._readline()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/fileinput.py", line 364, in _readline
return self._readline()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)
[herrold@localhost prices]$

ask if you need more information to reproduce, but this should suffice

Murray93DrunkAndDog.pdf

[pietermarsman]

The latin2ascii.py file did not have any meaningful changes since 2010. I guess it is outdated and there are (much) better ways to achieve what you want. What is it that you want to do?

For you information; the latin2ascii command does not extract the content of the pdf. It just prints the all the bytes from the file (in your case the pdf) in ascii notation.