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[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ctrl a

Ctrl c

alt tab

Ctl v

Ctl s

conversion complete

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago

real men find a random pdf converter website on the internets and upload our secret documents there

[–] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

$ pandoc doc.pdf -o doc.txt

Edit: welp, pandoc can't do that. pdftotext it is.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
magick file.jpg file.html

Imagemagick be converting anything into anything (Actually in this case, it make an html file and a png file which is referenced in html file and html page displays it)

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 weeks ago

not really a good way to get the text out of a pdf though. then again, turns out neither is pandoc.

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought pandoc didn’t support from PDF, only to?!

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

damn it, you're right. should probably have checked that...

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t worry, I didn’t know either and had to check to check too :P