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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

So I guess it's just only us Millennials that know how to convert a PDF properly, and we're just sandwiched in between boomers and gen Z finding the most ridiculous ways to try to accomplish that task.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Ctrl a

Ctrl c

alt tab

Ctl v

Ctl s

conversion complete

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

$ pandoc doc.pdf -o doc.txt

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

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