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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ctrl a

Ctrl c

alt tab

Ctl v

Ctl s

conversion complete

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

$ pandoc doc.pdf -o doc.txt

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 4 days ago

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

[–] stetech 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] stetech 1 points 4 days ago

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