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This is fantastic, would saved me dozens of hours as an econ undergraduate.

Semirelated: I used to have a ton of scanned journal articles that I wanted to be able to read on a kindle without having to scroll across every page, and came across k2pdfopt. It's a C script that finds word and line breaks in image based pdfs and rearranges the text so that they'll fit on smaller screens. It's got a ton of flags you can set and is pretty good and ignoring/cropping out headers and footers and dealing with pages scanned at an angle. http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/help/k2menu.shtml No affiliation with Willus

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