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• tesseract-ocr

  121 58,022 8.9 C++

  Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

  

Finally, if you have scanned documents in a PDF, then you will want some kind of OCR software. Tesseract is great for converting scanned documents to plain text, but does not handle layout. It's available on apt-based systems in the tesseract-ocr package, with tesseract-ocr-ABC packages for language support, where ABC is the 3-letter language code. Try apt search tesseract-ocr to see the list of available packages.

• pandoc

  420 32,396 9.8 Haskell

  Universal markup converter

If you want to convert a PDF to a word document or the OpenDocument format, then it's probably Pandoc that you're after - but bear in mind that PDFs are absolutely not designed for being converted that way - in that the result of any program that does this is going to be less than perfect.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• calibre

  862 18,335 9.9 Python

  The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

Ah, sure! Thanks for clarifying. The other piece of software that can convert like that is Calibre. It has a ton of options, but it more suited to books etc than regular documents e.g. forms etc.

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