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by rodw 3398 days ago
For what it's worth, here's a service that does that https://documentalchemy.com/demo/pdf2txt (and more: https://documentalchemy.com/demo)
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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.

> 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.

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