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How do you automate the process of figuring out which version is better? It's not safe to assume the smaller versions are always better, nor the inverse. Part
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
How do you automate the process of figuring out which version is better? It's not safe to assume the smaller versions are always better, nor the inverse. Particularly for books with images, one version of the book may have passable image quality while the other compressed the images to jpeg mush. And there are considerations that are difficult to judge quantitatively, like the quality of formatting. Even something seemingly simple like testing whether a book's TOC is linked correctly entails a huge rats nest of heuristics and guesswork.
- macintux 4y agoI don’t think anyone is arguing it can be fully automated, but automating the selection of books to manually review is certainly viable.
- kragen 4y agoMy usual heuristic is to take the version with the largest number of pages, or if there are several with the same number of pages, the one with the largest filesize. Obviously if someone is gaming this it won't work; it's trivial to insert mountains of noise into a PDF.