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Is it possible to remove ligatures from copied text?

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Mar 15, 20265016 views
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I have a few PDFs that contain ligatures in the text (e.g., is combined into a single character, ). Is there an easy way to remove them when copying the text from the PDF? (i.e., when I paste, I'd like the to be pasted as ). I copy a lot of text from these PDFs into answers on Stack Overflow and I …

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In python this would be: You could combine this with pyPdf to read the pdf files.

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