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Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub]
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Bob Newell |
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Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub] |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:48:01 -1000 |
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I get sent PDFs all the time and it's often frustrating.
However most of the time I need the text, not necessarily the
formatting. For that, there are various PDF to text
converters which work to some degree (not so great with
multi-column text for the most part).
I also found a PDF to spreadsheet converter which isn't
especially great but better than nothing. Well, at least a
little better.
I realize this doesn't at all address the original question
about editing PDFs in the true sense of editing. But in a lot
of cases text extraction may be good enough, depending on your
purpose.
Copy/paste works in many cases as well. For instance I just
got sent a PDF of a budget spreadsheet, and with not so much
effort was able to make it into an org-mode table.
All bets are off if the PDF is an /image/ of some text. Then
you've got to get out your friendly OCR software. In such
cases I write back to the sender and politely ask for
something easier to use.
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
- Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB
- FOSS replacement for PDF [Re: editing a PDF], (continued)
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- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Yuri Khan, 2023/03/22
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub],
Bob Newell <=
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Jean Louis, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Bob Newell, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Jean Louis, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Michael Heerdegen, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Emanuel Berg, 2023/03/23
- Re: editing a PDF [Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub], Emanuel Berg, 2023/03/23
Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub, Stephen Berman, 2023/03/16