Convert to text

19. 7. 2025

pdf ↓

# package: poppler-utils
pdftotext file.pdf

# Doesn't need X
# https://github.com/kevinboone/epub2txt2
epub2txt -a -n file.epub > file.txt

or much slower:

# Needs X
# package: calibre
ebook-convert file.epub file2.txt

# package: html2text
html2text < file.htm > file.txt

or worse:

# package: lynx (or w3m or elinks)
lynx --dump file.htm > file.txt

# package: pandoc
pandoc -f html -t plain file.htm -o file.txt

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