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I would suggest changing the title to the actual title of the article: Adaptive PDFs. Assuming the program works, the PDF will not actually look different to m

by gpvos 4mo ago

I would suggest changing the title to the actual title of the article: Adaptive PDFs. Assuming the program works, the PDF will not actually look different to me than to anyone else looking at it, so there is nothing that "changes based on who is reading". It is just that text extraction, a wholly different (and much fuzzier) process than viewing the PDF, and something that the same person can do, will now return structured (Markdown) text. (One might say the PDF changes based on how you are reading it.) A great idea, IMHO.

dredmorbius 4mo ago
Email the mods: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493683>. hn@ycombinator.com
mc32 4mo ago
Having slightly different versions would certainly be a help in identifying leakers of certain kinds of documents to increase the odds of identifying leakers. That would be of interest to some kinds of organizations or departments within organizations.
- Hendrikto 4mo ago
  Just have slightly different versions then. This has always been possible.
- deleted 4mo ago
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- gpvos 4mo ago
  PDF has lots of facilities to do that.
SarthakGaud 4mo ago
Thanks, the title was little misleading, I just changed it.
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dang 4mo ago
Thanks! Changed now. Submitted title was "A PDF that changes based on how its read".