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> Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency What's the alternative library you see?
by nomel 1mo ago
> Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency
What's the alternative library you see?
- verdverm 1mo agoWhy not computer use or using the tools the user prefers instead? The primary office suites have APIs/CLIs now
- tyre 1mo agoComputer use is slow and can take control of the application focus. I’ll be doing things while Claude runs in the background. Suddenly it decides to open the app and try to do something + screenshot it.
- verdverm 1mo agoThat's where the CLIs come in for me, I'm not going to waste tokens on screenshots and input device manipulation https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/getting-started-office365-cli-powershell/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/getting-start... https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli
- ChickeNES 1mo agoI don't know how many times I've had to yell at codex or claude to use/implement headless versions of whatever it's doing at the time, interrupts me trying to multitask and play Battlefield or Factorio while they work :P
- verdverm 1mo agodon't try Dyson sphere project (/s, its acrually really great), but maybe try x4 foundations, I'm contemplating how I might have my agent help manage my empire
- 1718627440 1mo agoCan't you run this under a different user or in the same, but with another instance of the desktop server?
- rcxdude 1mo agoAnother good reason to sandbox them into a VM :P
- cjav_dev 1mo agoRuns in the background now https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2095226982644830648 https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2095226982644830648
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- johnsmith1840 1mo agoIf you've ever actually gone down this route you will try exactly this realize how much of a cluster f these products are and just use libre. I did the exact same thing in my AI system. Spent an ENOURMOUS amount of time trying everything I could and in the end libre was the only thing even somewhat functional. Easily 2 months of my life lost to these god forsaken systems. APIs and CLIs sound reasonable until you actually attempt anything in this space. Computer use is exactly the same thing. Go try this: go to a google doc and dev tools check out the dom and now do the same for a word doc. Eye gouging pain of trying to get anything to work.
- simongg 1mo agoApache POI
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- nomel 1mo agoI don't think that's anywhere near equivalent. That's for reading and writing Microsoft Office docs. It has no office functionality. LibreOffice has a full API, for example to run calculations on spreadsheets [1]. The goal of bringing in dependencies is so you don't have to duplicate the functionality, in this case, crafted over decades of effort. [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/SDKGuide/Calc_API_Overview https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/SDKGuide/C...
- waysa 1mo agoPOI can run calculations. [1] That doesn't make it a full office suite but it does a lot. [1] https://poi.apache.org/components/spreadsheet/formula.html https://poi.apache.org/components/spreadsheet/formula.html
- MikeTheGreat 1mo agopandoc
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- nmatej1 1mo agohttps://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor