Juan Manuel Macías writes: > In the case of PDFs, I would use pdftotext. It converts the PDF to plain > text and (in theory) removes hyphens from the PDF after conversion. The > resulting plain text is somewhat ugly (page numbers and other elements > are preserved), but if you just want to copy/paste text, I think it's > enough.
And if you don't want to mess with the command line, you can also use calibre here to convert from PDF to plain text or even Epub (the latter is better because Epub is a tagged format and then you can have more control over how to process that, for example by converting it to Org or Markdown with pandoc). Calibre will do its best to preserve the structure of the PDF, removing hyphens and other unnecessary elements. But keep in mind that this process is largely heuristic, and the conversion is not 100% perfect. However, it works acceptably well. https://calibre-ebook.com/about
