pdf text extractor leads?

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

Could you do better than xpdf below for extracting text off https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fg0Oeh9DkK3CZgATiT5pi9D2nNCJg9kR/view ?

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From: Bhasha IME
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 16:00
Subject: Re: text extraction request
To: विश्वासो वासुकिजः 

done. lot of manual cleanup required. This is the best with xpdf. if you are aware of any other pdf text extractor that can extract with font info, let me know

[Bhasha IME]

I know no other which is better than xpdf; at most they are equal. The raw mode preserves order of above/below marks. other modes don't. same with poppler and every other extractor. They just cannot maintain order of text. If you are aware of any, let me know.

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[Shreevatsa R]

It may be possible to do better than xpdf, but in general, OCR is the best way to extract text from PDFs, sad to say.

For OCR, some options:

• https://dharmamitra.org/?view=ocr
• https://skrutable.info/ocr
• https://chaya.shreevatsa.net/ (in some broken state as usual)
• https://tools.simonwillison.net/ocr?language=san
• Blog post: https://www.tylerneill.info/blog-kalpataru-diaries/ocr-options

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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

(fwiw tried google drive api [input NOT image/ imagified] to see if it yields something more recoverable - it didn't in this case)

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