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On Saturday 14 February 2015 02:20 PM, Vaidheeswaran wrote:

> Specifically, in the pdftotext case above, I believe the best action
> would be to M-x flush-lines that match ^L so that page headers are
> stripped.

I was writing from memory.  I should have said this instead:

The best action would be to flush page headers 'surrounding' ^L and to
'splice' the paragraph lines (that are split apart) at the pagebreaks.

Essentially, for right repair, human intervention is a rule rather
than an exception.