On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 7:31 PM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 5:13 PM John R. Hogerhuis [email protected] > <https://mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > Tesseract or something like it was probably the source of the original OCR >> that's embedded in the PDF. It's something, but having messed with trying >> to correct assembly listings and ASCII art using it, it's not great. Maybe >> that was a skill issue on my part, but the AI is doing a very good job in >> comparison to what I was getting. >> > Yeah, it’s not obvious how to extract monospaced text from a PDF. If you > try to cut and paste, it’ll put the text in “reading order” instead of the > physical layout. I don’t know how to do in Microsoft Windows, but in UNIX > you can do this (presuming an 8 point fixed width font): > > pdftotext -fixed 8 -layout input.pdf output.txt > > —b9 >
Yeah I had tried various setings for fixed. Maybe 8 is better than what I tried. -- John.
