According to the people from Abbyy Fine Reader the error is caused by a "linearisation problem" in AFR14 and it will be fixed there.
However for files which show the syndrome I found out that they comply to the norm according to VeraPdf. According to the people of Abbyy Fine Reader, the error does no longer show up for Poppler Version > 0.50. However I was unable to check this with Evince since I have no version of Evince at hand which incorporates a version of Poppler>0.50. I only found that pdftotext version 0.66.0 did not use excessive memory nor excessive usage of CPU. Unfortunately I can not switch back to Poppler version 0.41.0 which belongs to Xubuntu 16.04.4. It would be helpful if one could lift all Poppler-dependant programs to a version > 0.50 without changing the version of the operating system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768840 Title: Evince 3.18.2 claims excessive memeoy when opening a multipage file created with AbbyyFineReader14 (AFR14, runs on Windows10) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1768840/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
