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We developers seem to really dislike PDFs, to a degree that we'll build LLMs and have them translate it into Markdown. Jokes aside, PDFs really serve a good pu
by qwertox 2y ago
We developers seem to really dislike PDFs, to a degree that we'll build LLMs and have them translate it into Markdown.
Jokes aside, PDFs really serve a good purpose, but getting data out of them is usually really hard. They should have something like an embedded Markdown version with a JSON structure describing the layout, so that machines can easily digest the data they contain.
- jgalt212 2y agoI think you might be looking for PDF/A. https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/resources/document-files/pdf-types.html https://www.adobe.com/uk/acrobat/resources/document-files/pd... For example, if you print a word doc to PDF, you get the raw text in PDF form, not an image of the text.
- gpvos 2y agoPDF/A doesn't require preserving the document structure, only that any text is extractable.
- siva7 2y ago> We developers seem to really dislike PDFs, to a degree that we'll build LLMs and have them translate it into Markdown. Why Jokes aside? Markdown/html is better suited for the web than pdf