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[rodw]

For what it's worth, here's a service that does that https://documentalchemy.com/demo/pdf2txt (and more: https://documentalchemy.com/demo)

[flexie → rodw]

Just tried the demos on this website.

I tried to extract text from a pdf that already has searchable text, which can be copy-pasted. This should be the easiest task of all but it made mistakes in every second word.

Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word.

[rodw → flexie]

> Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word.

Really? I'm pretty sure that's not the way this works.

[jlink → rodw]

thanks for sharing this one, didn't know it.