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Cleaning up pdftotext font issues

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20269734 views
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I'm using to make an ASCII version of a PDF document (made with LaTeX), because collaborators prefer a simple document in MS Word. The plain text version I see looks good, but upon closer inspection the f character seems to be frequently mis-converted depending on what characters follow. For exampl…

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pdftotext

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Fix for: Cleaning up pdftotext font issues

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Assuming you're on some kind of Unix-based system, you could run this on the output of pdftotext: That should replace the ligatures with the individual letters they break into. (See my comments above for what ligatures have to do with this.) I teste…

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