PDF to Text
Extracts text page by page using pypdf's text layer reader. It works well for normal text-based PDFs; scanned image-only PDFs need OCR first since there is no text layer to read.
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How it works
Limitations: Scanned/image-only PDFs need OCR PDF first — this tool only reads existing text layers.
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