" Paste text
normal! "+P

" Get rid of this weird unicode character (U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER)
" that appears in some PDFs.
%s/\m\%uFFFD/ /ge

" Remove beginning whitespace
%s/\m^\s\+//e

" Remove trailing whitespace
%s/\m\s\+$//e

" Join hyphens that appear on their own line. U+00AD is the character
" SOFT HYPHEN, which is used in some PDFs for hyphenating word-breaks between
" lines.
%s/\m\n^\(-\|\%u00ad\)$\n//e

" Join hyphens at the end of lines
%s/\m\(-\|\%u00ad\)$\n//e

" Remove inconsistent spacing
%s/\m\s\+/ /ge

" Add a blank line at the end of the buffer so the next command doesn't fail
normal! Go

" Join paragraphs. From :help edit-paragraph-join
g/\m\S/,/\m^\s*$/join

" Delete blank lines
g/\m^$/delete

" Create paragraph breaks
%s/\m\n/\r\r/e

" Two extra blank lines will be created by the previous command. The following
" removes them.
normal! Gdddd

" Copy text to clipboard
normal! govGg_"+y

quit!