On 2024-03-11 17:44 Greg Reagle <l...@speedpost.net> wrote:
> Now my next question is, what is the tool that does the *best* job of
> turning a PDF book into a readable text document? Via html or
> docbook or markdown or whatever--doesn't matter. My previous
> experience trying things out to achieve this goal is that it's just
> not worth it. The output always winds up un-readable.
I use pdftotext from poppler-utils. It does quite good job.
This is my main pdf reader command:
```
pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk ${1@Q} - | less -MS --use-color
```
