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nico
It would be cool if it could also do “LLM style” operations, like summarizing or extracting key points of the documents
yapyap
not really, very out of scope IMO
pkal
If you really have to "mutool draw -F txt somefile.pdf" will extract the text contents, that you can then pipe to a LLM.
tough
how will it handle things like tables let me try
daft_pink
I really wish there was a way to view and edit pdf from the terminal vim style.
dirkt
You can decompress the streams with mutool and edit the Postscript-like code in any editor, if you want. (That doesn't help a lot with editing text, of course...)
ttyprintk
You’re better off converting to markdown with docling or markupsafe. But, if you’re careful, Qpdf offers an intermediate document format, like pandoc, but pandoc doesn’t read PDF.
s-emanuilov
Monkt.com offers an online version (no setup or configuration) for docling. Additionally, it has a few extra extraction methods. It could be tested for conversion to markdown.
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rtcode_io
If this is using MuPDF, beware that they are very rude and assume ill will! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096211
fn-mote
That comment you linked to is yours, and flagged.

It reads to me like you are still carrying a grudge about one rude interaction. I read that whole thread and I don't want to see it repeated here.

fn-mote
This is not a very good link to post - it's a manpage.

A better link (from the developer's git repository):

https://mupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mupdf-command-line.ht...

Source for mutool:

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf/blob/master/source/...

postepowanieadm
It's ok, but some less used features have undocumented regressions.