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https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdftotext https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdftotext is the simplest thing that might work. It is free and mature.

• jbaiter 2y ago
  That will not work for scanned PDFs without a text layer and even if it has one, it's not guaranteed to work.
  • brudgers 2y ago
    "Might work" comes with neither express nor implied warranty. OCR is another thing that might work which is also simpler than an LLM.