When it comes up for me, I've usually been able to use the mentioned pdftotext from poppler-utils. With just one tweak that isn't mentioned in the article...fo

When it comes up for me, I've usually been able to use the mentioned pdftotext from poppler-utils. With just one tweak that isn't mentioned in the article...for some documents, adding the "-layout" option gets the text in a state where I can parse it more easily.