Scripting help : Copy Text from pdf without line breaks.

[KAGEYAM4]

Reference : Copy Text from pdf without line breaks

When Copying text from pdf, \n charcter is there on every line end. Then i have to remove them manually. I make notes in Anki by copying text from pdf.

My System : ArchLinux, DE: Plasma, Wayland.

Currently i was using this, but the limitation was i cannot copy two or more paragraph at once as this function will merge all those paragraphs. So i was looking to improve it.

[Command]
Command="
    copyq:
    function modifyText(text)
    {
        return text.replace(/\\n/g, ' ')
    }

    copy()

    var text = str(clipboard())
    var newText = modifyText(text)
    if (text == newText)
        abort()

    copy(newText)
    //paste()
    hide()"
Icon=\xf15b
InMenu=true
Name=Remove '\\n' characters
Shortcut=ctrl+n

I found this regex modifiedText = text.replace(/(?<!\.)\n/g, ' ') but it is not working.

Idea behind this was if \n is followed by full-stop(.) then it won't touch it otherwise it will replace \n with space.

[KAGEYAM4]

I tried doing it myself using Python and bash. The logic had gap becuase of the way the text gets copied from pdf so i can't maintain a good formatting the way i want while copying multiple paragraps so i will just stick to normal 1 paragraph formatting.