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Re:So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand by aleden on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:52PM (#37384280)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned qpdf.

https://qpdf.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview.html

It turns a PDF (typically everything in it is compressed binary blobs) into a mixed binary/ASCII file (which itself is a PDF) that can be edited with vim.

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Re:So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand by chrnola on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:59PM (#37384362)
The linked article literally mentions qpdf within the first few paragraphs.
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Re:So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand by rhaway84773 on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:59PM (#37384358)
It’s mentioned in the gist

> To view the compressed data, you can use a command line tool called qpdf.

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Re:So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand by gpvos on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:53PM (#37384958)
I'm not sure what you were reading, but the fine article is centred around using qpdf.
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