getting out of LaTeX

I'm translating a linguistics article from German, and I don't want to
retype all the examples from the language under discussion, but the
author provided not a Word (or similar) file, but a pdf out of LaTeX,
and the author is now telling the volume editor that he therefore can't
provide a word processor text of the examples.

Can this be true?

Is it not possible to save a LaTeX document in a format readable by
another program?

If so, this is an enormously serious drawback to the system, even more
so than the having-to-program-every-format-change drawback.

Thank you.

.

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