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add a cmd line switch to generate a txt file to along with the pdf #11

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OCRmyPDF-issuebot opened this issue Sep 14, 2015 · 2 comments
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add a cmd line switch to generate a txt file to along with the pdf #11

OCRmyPDF-issuebot opened this issue Sep 14, 2015 · 2 comments
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Issue by fritz-hh
Sun Sep 28 20:27:47 2014
Originally opened as fritz-hh/OCRmyPDF#93
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Comment by zorglups
Tue Mar 10 21:27:05 2015

I planned to do it to allow post treatment based on the ocred content.

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In the spirit of Unix - a command should do one thing well - I'm going to leave this out.

Getting text out is not trivial and everyone will have different requirements.

Use pdftotext from poppler-utils or extractText() in PyPDF2 to get the text out.

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