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Posts by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to convert PDF to docx

Pdf is one of the most unsuitable file formats to use as a starting point for converting it to docx. A pdf by itself is pretty much "dumb", it knows the position of letters etc, but not much more. ...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to convert PDF to docx

If your goal is to make small edits to the resulting document, you can use LibreOffice with the following command: soffice --infilter="writer_pdf_import" --convert-to docx document.pdf This wil...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Highlight regions in an image with CLI

Another possibility is to use LaTeX. There are several ways in which you could use it to add a polygon on top of an image, one way is TikZ: % !TeX program = txs:///arara % arara: pdflatex: {synct...

posted 8mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by samcarter‭

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