You might try DeTeX (or OpenDetex, which is easier to find). It strips all 
LaTeX commands, just leaving the text.

(Old version with Windows executable 
here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/opendetex/
Newer version, but source only, 
here: https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex )

- Jason

On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 8:30:46 PM UTC-6, Grady D wrote:
>
> I am trying to convert many LaTeX documents using Pandoc. However, some of 
> the documents have syntax errors or are poorly formatted, and cause Pandoc 
> to crash. Is there anything I could use, through Pandoc or otherwise, to 
> make these documents usable/convertable? I intend to convert them to 
> plaintext preserving only the content, so I do not need full blown syntax 
> repair as much as I just need a way to eliminate malformed statements. At 
> the bottom of this post, I have attached some of the errors I'm talking 
> about. 
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you guys have. 
>
> Error examples: https://hastebin.com/raw/womufuxoko
>

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