Converted document has no text. about pdf2docx

[dothinking]

Hi Jatin,

pdf2docx won't OCR pdf, so it should be no text if it's not a text-based pdf. Otherwise, could you please provide the source pdf? So, I can look into it.

[Jatin965]

This is what pdf looked like:

This is what i got as response.

I tried with this pdf and got this.
Thank you for your reply and helping me.

[dothinking]

Thank you for the input. I guess it's not real "text", but some path show the shape of each character. Could you copy any text in the pdf and paste here to prove it?

[Jatin965]

Yes, it's not real "text". I didn't knew about it. But, is there anything i can do for these type of PDFs?

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You have to ocr them first to get the real text. I'd recommend https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF, which ocr you pdf and generates a real text layer right behind the original "text". In this way, the format is still persisted. After that, it should be processed correctly by pdf2docx.

[Jatin965]

Thank you so much for helping me. :)