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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by flexie on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:04AM (#13731829)
Just tried the demos on this website.

I tried to extract text from a pdf that already has searchable text, which can be copy-pasted. This should be the easiest task of all but it made mistakes in every second word.

Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word.

Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by rodw on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:37AM (#13732281)
> Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word.

Really? I'm pretty sure that's not the way this works.