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> Any other ideas?

See update of Parsing PDFs by text position? and linked threads

> nothing had worked

What does this exactly mean?

If pdftohtml -xml doesn't produce readable text, your only remaining chance is OCR, because the PDF might embed its own font in random order or even only an image showing the text.

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In reply to Re: Converting PDF file to text by LanX
in thread Converting PDF file to text by cerian

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