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How do I extract text from images in terminal?

I did this using Shortcuts on Mac OS, creating the following shortcut: Then executing the shortcut from the command line or a script: shortcuts run "extract_text_from_image" -i input.png -o ...
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How to install pdftools with MacPorts?

You seem to have installed a package for R (a programming language) which lets R programmers manipulate PDF files. It doesn't look like you can call it directly from the terminal. Usage instructions ...
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How to read PDF on iPhone in narrower columns?

PDFs are designed to describe a fixed page layout, with items in set positions. They are not capable of 'live reflowing' the text, or wrapping it to the window. That having been said, some desktop ...
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How can I edit Books’ metadata on iOS?

iOS is sandboxed, and the Books app does not save data to a folder in the Files app, so there is no iOS SDK function to access or modify the Books app’s files. This determines that you must copy the ...
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How to install pdftools with MacPorts?

Here are a range of PDF-manipulating command line tools that can be installed directly: XPDF tools https://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html PDFtk Server: https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/ ...
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Preview automatically password protects PDF when saving

This worked for me when other answers did not. After opening the file in Preview and typing data into the form, I did the following without saving the document first. File > Print In a dropdown ...
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Page from a website won't print to PDF in some browsers

For me it prints in Safari and Google Chrome Here is the print preview in Chrome In Chrome you have to use the Print Icon shown here
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Why is my Quick Actions menu (mostly) empty? I want to combine text-file and/or Pages-files into a PDF

The Create PDF Quick Action only works for images or PDF files. (You can combine PDFs into one.) A .txt file is just a string of characters: there's no information about page size, margins, font size ...
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How to prevent preview from recognizing the numbers in PDFs as phone numbers?

It would be useful if you could clarify whether you're using a mobile (iOS) device or macOS. On macOS, there would be a preference that could change this. It is working in applications like TextEdit ...
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