2026-08-10 10:00 UTC
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@dprieto@mastodon.uy 2026-08-10 10:46
@amoroso@oldbytes.space pdftotext?
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@ggtr1138@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-08-10 10:10
@amoroso@oldbytes.space I tested Docling and it's quite nice https://docling.ai/
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@Bene@fosstodon.org 2026-08-10 10:36
@amoroso@oldbytes.space I bet open office can help with that
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@kagamiin@blahaj.zone 2026-08-10 11:41
@amoroso@oldbytes.space pdftotext from the poppler package will do it. It has quite a few other useful tools, too, like pdfunite which can combine multiple PDFs into one.
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@dewomser@social.tchncs.de 2026-08-10 13:04
@amoroso@oldbytes.space tesseract https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_(Software)
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@villon@bildung.social 2026-08-10 13:12
@amoroso@oldbytes.space paperless ngx
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@wnd@fosstodon.org 2026-08-10 15:59
@amoroso@oldbytes.space I would echo the use of https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
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@darkstar@mastodon.nl 2026-08-10 17:53
@amoroso@oldbytes.space Stirling PDF
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@kdieter@machteburch.social 2026-08-11 23:47
@amoroso@oldbytes.space pdfgrep, pdftotxt and even plain grep can work miracles
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@fcr@post.lurk.org 2026-08-15 10:35
@amoroso@oldbytes.space ebook-convert from the Calibre suite. Can convert PDF into docx, txt/Markdown, html, RTF, epub and apply heuristics in the process.