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Re:Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to ... by Kikobeats on Friday June 07, 2024 @09:49AM (#40608694)
You can use Microlink to turn PDF into HTML, and combine it with other service for processing the text data.

Here an example turning a arxiv paper into real text:

https://api.microlink.io/?data.html.selector=html&embed=html...

It looks like PDF, but it you open devtools you can see it's actually a very precise HTML representation.

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