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Yeah, I wasn't referring to the security of tools used to process PDFs, including memory-safe rewrites, but that too! Instead to whether incentivizing migration
by mlinksva 3y ago
Yeah, I wasn't referring to the security of tools used to process PDFs, including memory-safe rewrites, but that too! Instead to whether incentivizing migration to a safer portable document format couldn't be justified and done in a similar way to how memory safety is being approached now.
Edit: re-reading I guess your point is that you can use tools to extract text from PDFs and then read without worry. That brings up another super annoying thing about PDFs--it's can be hard to extract text from them with high fidelity.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago> can be hard to extract text from them with high fidelity. Or impossible with scans. Usually I take a look at the filesize as a guestimate. Anyone know better FOSS OCR tools that run from cmdline?