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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
Don't we all? But there is no chance that there will ever be a tool like that. PDF is so locked in that easy conversion is just not viable without losing a lot of the formatting.
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The fundamental problem with PDF files is that they do not contain things like paragraphs, lines, or even words. They simply have drawing command for placing individual letters at certain coordinates on the page. A conversion program can attempt to "reconstruct" the text from that, but it's a damned difficult job.
The best way to "convert" PDFs is often to print them and OCR the printed output.