py_pdf_copy

It is a small script that manipulates text copied from PDF and formats it so that line breaks are removed. It is built for linux, and depends on xsel/Clipit clipboard manager.

Dependencies

• Python3.6

Supported Clipboard Managers

Currently it supports the following clipboard managers:

• Clipit
• Xsel

Installation

Use your favorite shortcut editor to assign the following keyboard shortcut:

python3.6 <path of py_pdf_copy.py>

For example, I use the following:

python3.6 /home/amit/git/py_pdf_copy/py_pdf_copy.py

Usage

Instead of doing ctrl c -> ctrl v, you do this: ctrl c -> custom_shortcut -> ctrl v