I have received a lot of PDF documents that I wish to convert to text formats such as docx/doc/odt.

I know there are some online tools that will do it for you, but some content may be sensitive with people’s names and addresses and I’m not sure I can trust these websites.

Are there software that will convert a PDF to odt?

Things I know and tried:

  1. Asked a friend to open PDF in Microsoft Word: Their license expired last month, so it doesn’t let you save the file!

  2. Tried to do the same on my LibreWriter: It doesn’t support that format.

  3. Tried to open in LibreDraw: untenable as I want to type more things in the document.

P.S: I use Linux, but reckon solutions for platforms would be fine.

  • Dotdev
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    4 months ago

    Have you tried pandoc ?

      • Dotdev
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        4 months ago

        It can convert to other formats but it requires extra dependencies for it to fully work

        • Handles@leminal.space
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          4 months ago

          Well yes, pandoc converts between all sorts of files but AFAIR it’s not great converting FROM pdf.

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        4 months ago

        It works fine just the text would not be in the same format but the text should be fine