Yeah, I've had good luck with pdftotext -layout in the past. And in one case I've used pdftohtml -xml (plus some post-processing), which is useful if the layout

Yeah, I've had good luck with pdftotext -layout in the past. And in one case I've used pdftohtml -xml (plus some post-processing), which is useful if the layout is complex or you want to capture stuff like bold/italic.