Convert PDF to Excel

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:04:21 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 09:40:41 +0100
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> > They contain text, so the OCR problem is out of the way.
> > Sadly, the text is re-arranged so the optimal solution (one
> > line in a table equals one line of text, with the columns
> > being separated by whitespace) does not appear, instead it
> > is the other way round: one line equals one column.
> 
> 	I spy a fun interview question buried in this problem - flipping a
> text file like that efficiently is far from easy - dead easy if you
> don't mind eating memory of course.

convert -rotate 90 ;-)


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