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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) by kkarpkkarp on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:27AM (#45899859)
Please try this https://www.freeconvert.com/pdf-to-txt It uses the same library I use.

You will probably see only some footer/header content from your pdf.

In general, word doc has some caveats when it generates pdf. Not everything is retrieval when you try to get the pure text content.

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) by starik36 on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @04:00PM (#45906605)
Nope. It got the whole thing. Might be an issue with your app.
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