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Mutool – all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files

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43 points rahimnathwani | 1 comments | 02 Feb 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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daft_pink ◴[02 Feb 25 18:13 UTC] No.42910457[source]▶
I really wish there was a way to view and edit pdf from the terminal vim style.
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1. layer8 ◴[03 Feb 25 01:00 UTC] No.42913700[source]▶
The PDF format isn’t really designed for editing. For viewing, there’s pdftotext [0] or ebook-convert [1].

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.html

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/calibre/ebook-convert.1.html