pdf-to-markdown
Read, OCR, create, and manipulate PDF files. Recipe 1: convert PDFs to Markdown via .NET-native parsing in PowerShell. Recipe 4: OCR scanned PDFs with pymupdf + Tesseract tessdata_best on Windows. Beyond Extraction: merge, split, rotate, watermark, encrypt, decrypt, create from scratch with reportlab, and fill AcroForm fields via pypdf + qpdf. Handles German-locale PDFs (umlauts, ß) and structured documents (payslips, invoices, Bescheide). USE FOR: convert PDF to markdown, extract text from PDF, parse PDF, Entgeltabrechnung, payslip/invoice PDF, German PDF, Gehaltsabrechnung, scanned PDF, OCR PDF, Tesseract, tesseract deu, pymupdf OCR, TESSDATA_PREFIX, merge PDFs, split PDF, rotate PDF pages, watermark PDF, encrypt PDF, password-protect PDF, decrypt PDF, create PDF from scratch, reportlab PDF, fill PDF form, AcroForm fill, pypdf, qpdf. DO NOT USE FOR: complex vector graphics editing, XFA forms, PDF/A archival conversion, signing PDFs with a hardware token.
- Compatibility
- Text extraction is .NET-native PowerShell. OCR requires Python with pymupdf and Tesseract tessdata_best; creation, merging, and form filling require pypdf, reportlab, and qpdf.
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