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+## Extract PDF text to Markdown
+
+Allows you to extract the basic textual content of a PDF into a Markdown file. Works well with headings, paragraphs and lists.
+
+### Demo
+
+![](https://github.com/akaalias/extract-pdf-obsidian/blob/main/demo.gif?raw=true)
+
+### How to use this plugin
+
+After you've installed and activated the plugin:
+
+1. Drag your PDF into Obsidian
+2. Open the PDF within Obsidian
+3. Make sure the pane with your PDF is focused
+4. Click the "PDF to Markdown" button in the sidebar
+5. Edit the generated markdown file to your needs
+
+### Tips & Tricks for editing the generated markdown file
+
+I just went ahead and turned a 500 page PDF into markdown and found that it worked better and faster than I expected.
+
+#### Bulk-removing page footers
+
+The book I used had the same footer on every page. That means they got copied into the markdown file over and over, too.
+
+For bulk search-and-replace I use the Atom editor (https://atom.io):
+
+0. Copy the footer text into your clipboard
+1. Download and install Atom
+2. Open Atom and open the Markdown file inside
+3. Use "Find -> Find in Buffer" and paste the footer text
+4. Use the button "Replace" or "Replace All" to remove footer text
+
+#### Remove a single space before a new line of text
+
+Weirdly, sometimes, new lines of text had a space infront of them. Such as:
+
+` Some text`
+
+...which resulted in Obisidian treating it as a sub-block of the preceding line.
+
+To remove the space for those lines, I used a regular expression search-and-replace:
+
+1. In "Find in current buffer" activate "Regex Search" (The `.*` icon)
+2. Enter `^([ ]|\t)+` into the search field
+4. Use the button "Replace" or "Replace All" to remove the space
+
+## Known issues
+
+### First-time use
+
+If you had a PDF open in Obisidian _before_ you installed and activated the plugin, hitting the button may not work. I've had this issue with other plugins as well. The code just doesn't hook up to already-open files.
+
+The solution is to simply close the PDF note and re-open it. That will allow the plugin to hook into it.
+
+### Limited PDF parsing
+
+Please understand that this is a basic, best-effort tool to get basic text and headings from a PDF. It really just gets the text from a pdf and turns it into Markdown. The plugin doesn't handle anything more complex, like tables, images, annotations etc:
+
+- Does not turn PDF highlights and annotations into MD highlights
+- Does not retain PDF numbered lists
+- Does not skip text in headers and footers