#PDFToText
A little experiment I’ve done:

wget -i papers.txt
for file in *.pdf; do pdftotext #$FILE "${file%.pdf}.txt"; done
grep -l -e ChatGPT -e Claude -e Astra -e Gemini -e OpenAI -e Anthropic *.txt | wc -l

The output:
1358

I have no further questions, your honour.
STOC 2027 received 1665 submissions. In a bold new experiment, all submissions (and author identities) are immediately made public. This is the most immediate and revealing posting of any conference I am aware of.

Take a look and see what you find!

stoc2027.sigact-ec.workers.dev
STOC 2027 Submissions
stoc2027.sigact-ec.workers.dev
November 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Try "pdftotext" to examine the raw textualization of the content; I bet that's what it's checking, and it might not align with the visible PDF the way one would hope
November 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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November 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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November 3, 2026 at 11:39 AM
🌙 今夜のもう 1 本

「OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順」(Zenn (Claude topic))

マニュアル記載と推測を切り分ける出典表記の型。PLC業務でClaudeの回答を検証可能にする手順。

気になった方はぜひ。

#Claude #ClaudeCode
https://hiroba.kojihq.com/articles/omron-manual-lookup-skill-citation
OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順
FHマクロやNXの仕様回答で、マニュアル記載と一般知識による補完を区別するための自作スキル omron-manual-lookup の解説。手元PDF→公式サイトの探索順、pdftotext と grep による該当箇所の抽出、印刷ページ番号での出典表記、未記載部分の「マニュアル未確認」明示などの手順を整理。Claude を FA・PLC 業務に使う技術者向け。
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October 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
it (experimentally) works with pdfs too

it decomposes the pdf into text & images (including rendering diagrams to images) using poppler tools (pdftotext etc.)

the qwen model is multimodal so you can input images & get those images considered in the summary
October 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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October 15, 2026 at 11:39 AM
(I know you're probably searching online, but I couldn't help myself)

for file in /path/to/files/*.pdf; do match=$(pdftotext "$file" - | grep "Plainti[(ff)|(ff)]"); if [[ -n "$match" ]]; then echo "$file"; echo "$match"; fi; done
October 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Tu CV en LaTeX se ve perfecto. Extrae el texto con pdftotext: si pone «Perl» donde escribiste «Perfil», o «ocial» en vez de «oficial», eso es lo que lee el portal de empleo. Pega el texto en el comprobador gratuito y lo ves en un segundo.

https://getreadystack.com/es/tools/plantilla-cv-latex
October 2, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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September 29, 2026 at 7:54 AM
PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) is worth a look too, free and gives you a full tag tree instead of eyeballing it in a browser. poppler's pdftotext -layout is handy for a quick sanity check on reading order.
September 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
I've been using gemma4 31b for document summarization and find it pretty good for that. (I use it via goose as the harness and give it a suite of PDF CLI tools like pdftotext.)
September 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
These systems typically rely on backend text extraction libraries, most notably pdftotext (part of the Poppler open-source suite) or Apache Tika.
September 17, 2026 at 6:43 AM
PDF to Text — Free Online Tool
#pdftotext #pdf #freetools
PDF to Text — Free Online Tool
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September 15, 2026 at 11:28 AM
dennisrobertgrossman-boop/K-zl-ny-monitor: Correct two facts verified by a live run against issue 2026/127 (6424025)
September 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
there's a redline version, but yeah, it's not something that anyone can just whip through. I do use pdftotext for conversion but diffing involves normalizing the text first and it's messy.
August 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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August 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM
One of the things I greatly lament is not learning PowerShell scripting when I started this road decades ago!

pdftotext is freaking awesome!!!!! Just saved hours a week breaking apart PDF to log ingesting. pdftotext takes minutes to get PDF logs ready!!!!!!!!
August 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🐥 From N+1 to 1: Extracting paged PDF text with a single pdftotext call

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June 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
@dcz @pandoc Sorry, missed that. You could try pdftotext from poppler-utils https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.en.html or pdf2text from pdfminer https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer
pdftotext(1) — poppler-utils — Debian stretch — Debian Manpages
manpages.debian.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Useful #linux commands for working with PDF files in command line:

ocrmypdf - OCR text
pdftotext - extract text
pdfimages - extract images
exiftool - extract metadata
pdfgrep - search matches with keyword/regular expression
pdfunite - merge PDFs in one file (for quick view)
February 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
GitHub Copilot に PDF の中身のテキストを抽出してと言ったら普通に pdftotext コマンドを呼び出しやがったw まぁ,いいけども。

抽出テキストを Markdown に整形させたら綺麗にできたので,よしとしよう
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM