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curiously poppler doesn't mention that anywhere on their website, but the library comes with a similar suite of tools, typically available in linux distributions.

i have found them very helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)#poppler-uti...



I use these all the time. They are great.


Same, in conjunction with some of the format conversion tools that come with Ghostscript, and PDFgrep (https://pdfgrep.org/).


I just used these tools to parse a few hundred thousand PDF paystubs to get data into our new financial system. 10/10 would use again.




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