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Ripping an image based PDF to text (and old TurboBASIC commands)

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Steven Mackaay

Recently, I wanted to pull text from a PDF that was scanned in from an old manual, namely the Borland Turbo Basic manual. The text that was in the document was garbage, nothing there to be done, so I decided to write something that would allow me to: 1. Load a PDF2. Rip the images…

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