Feature request: extract plaintext / markdown

[joepio]

Hi there! Thanks for creating and sharing this :)

One quite common use case with PDF libraries, is to get the text form a PDF. This is often used for things like indexing documents in a search engine. There is a project in Rust that does this called pdf-extract but I'd love to see an alternative to this (for a couple of reasons)

I noticed rspdf has a way to extract XML text from a PDF. I was wondering whether it would also be possible to extract content as plaintext? Or even better: extract it as markdown!

Perhaps this is completely out of scope for the project. Maybe I could help out with this someday (have some plans in this regard) if you think it may be a good fit.

Cheers!

[rockyzhengwu]

Thanks, i'm glad your have interest about this project.

This project is primarily centered around extracting text and images and converting them to other formats at now, plain text. Markdown support is a potential future addition.

However, there are numerous bugs to address, particularly related to fonts. Consequently, the timeline for completion is uncertain