Can you view pdf as pure text in terminal/ nox?

I have seen some plugins that convert pdf pages into images but is there one that converts them into text?

There are command line tools such as pdftotext. Nothing to do with Emacs though.

Yup, sure. I used to use something like this for that purpose: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UnPdf It looks like someone's now created a mode to do the same thing: https://github.com/tecosaur/pdftotext.el

Looks like the latter is (unsurprisingly) a wrapper for the command-line tool of the same name.

Indeed. Should get the job done, though. :)

You'll need to use a converting tool of some sort since PDF files are binary files.

would you mind explaining what a mode/wrapper is? does it mean I should download the original one or the mode?

Hi! Thank you! Is it within emacs or a terminal tool? Should I download the pdf first and then I can view it in emacs?

Thanks! i see, is viewing pdf while using eww doable?