Any libre-friendly convrter of pdf to doc/docx/odt ? (lemmy.world)

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I have received a lot of PDF documents that I wish to convert to text formats such as docx/doc/odt.

I know there are some online tools that will do it for you, but some content may be sensitive with people's names and addresses and I'm not sure I can trust these websites.

Are there software that will convert a PDF to odt?

Things I know and tried:

Asked a friend to open PDF in Microsoft Word: Their license expired last month, so it doesn't let you save the file!
Tried to do the same on my LibreWriter: It doesn't support that format.
Tried to open in LibreDraw: untenable as I want to type more things in the document.

P.S: I use Linux, but reckon solutions for platforms would be fine.

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[-] Dotdev@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Have you tried pandoc ?

[-] halm@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

I think Pandoc only converts to PDF? Maybe Poppler will do the trick.

[-] Dotdev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

It can convert to other formats but it requires extra dependencies for it to fully work

[-] halm@leminal.space 1 points 2 months ago

Well yes, pandoc converts between all sorts of files but AFAIR it's not great converting FROM pdf.

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