66.7 PDF Extract Text

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The text of a pdf document can be extract using pdf2txt. This works well for text-based PDF documents. However, some PDF documents are primarily a container for images, even images of pages of text. In this case we may need to use optical character recognition (OCR) and the command ocrmypdf. See Section 66.12 for details.

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