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Conversion from pdf to txt yields (near) empty file
Hi there,
I'm faced with a small problem: I am trying to convert a pdf to txt, and that pdf allows me to select and copy paste (it's not just images). I first tried: Code:
pdftotext source.pdf source.txt Code:
ebook-convert source.pdf source.txt Does anybody know if there are options I could try in this case, or is it likely hopeless (e.g. because of the complexity of the pdf) ? Using ebook-convert (calibre 7.13.0). Thanks a lot in advance! |
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If you can select, you can possibly select all and copy paste to get the text out.
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If copy/paste does not work, then you could try OCR.
Mind you it didn't work for me when I tried it. I had the same issue on a pdf of a really old public domain book and when I took a closer look at the pdf, I came to the conclusion that it was just a collection of photographs of the pages of a physical book. Some of the pages were not exactly straight and some were more faded than others. Because I prefer using my kindle and because reading such pdf's on my kindle is such a pain, I tried a few things to get an epub text version including using OCR. But although the quality of the images was enough to make it easily readable as a pdf, it obviously was not good enough for OCR, so I basically gave up and read the pdf on my computer |
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