convert pdf to svg

A good website is Convertio: it can convert, for free, your pdf to an svg absolutely identical, from a graphical point of view, with your original pdf, and the text remain text.

But on the other hand the resulting svg file is much bigger than the original pdf, because it is not optimized at all.

automatic crop pdf margins

I found this excellent tool: PdfCropMargins, a very light app (both for Linux and Windows), which can crop automatically pdf white margins (top,bottom,left,right) even if they are very irregular (different from page to page). With a great accuracy. And without growing the pdf size.

You can use the gui, starting from a command line, such as pdf-crop-margins -gui “original-pdf.pdf” -o “target-pdf.pdf”.

save only some pdf pages from a pdf

You can use Okular, of course: print to file -> the pages you want. But thus you get an image pdf. If you want keep a text pdf, you can use a program like PdfArranger, which allows to save (only) the pages you want from a whole pdf, keeping them as searchable pdf (text).

re-ocr a pdf with Adobe

You have to 1) save the old searchable pdf to tiff images (as many as the pages), 2) ocr the tiff images to a searchable pf 3) combine the new multiple pdf to one pdf.

OpenOffice: crash on pdf export

Può succedere (fa arrabbiare non saper spiegare esattamente perché, ma è così).
Due le soluzioni, in Linux:

  • loggarsi come root e allora export as PDF funziona senza problemi
  • usare il comando print -> to file

Si tratta di ripieghi, daccordo, ma almeno provvisoriamente servono 😉