A way to convert PDF to Markdown or other (Solution!)

[BP Jonsson <bpjonsson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

This may be old news to some, but I can't remember having
seen it, so I make a post for the record.

I just discovered that you can convert a PDF to Markdown (or
any other format Pandoc supports) by uploading it to Google
Drive, opening it in Google Docs and downloading it from
there as DOCX, then converting the DOCX to Markdown with
Pandoc. The result is quite good!

The steps:

0.  Log into <drive.google.com> in a web browser.

1.  Select the menu [My Drive⏷] → [Upload files…] in the top
     bar.

2.  At least on my system a file dialog opens. Browse to the
     PDF file; select it; click [Open].

3.  The file appears in the "Quick access" field just below
     the top bar.

4.  Right-click the file thumbnail; choose [Open with] →
     [Google Docs]. You should now find yourself in the
     Google Docs document view.

5.  In the [File] menu choose [Download as]
     → [Microsoft Word (.docx)].

6.  Save the DOCX file to disk and convert it with Pandoc
     the same as you would any DOCX file.

I hope this is of use to someone!

/bpj

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