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I think “copy from a PDF” could be improved with AI. It’s been 30 years and I still get new lines in the middle of sentences when I try to copy from one.

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That's a great use case, you might be able to do this if you've got a copy and paste on the command line with

https://github.com/simonw/llm

In between. An alias like pdfwtf translating to "paste | llm command | copy"

i've long assumed that is a "feature" of PDF akin to DRM. Making copying text from a PDF makes sense from a publisher's standpoint.

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