Imagine if you could bookmark and link academic PDFs, even any PDF. Hookmark allows you to do that. Link PDFs to your drafts, outline, tasks, other #PDFs, web pages etc. https://hookproductivity.com

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts - For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a ... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why-extracting-data-from-pdfs-is-still-a-nightmare-for-data-experts/ #opticalcharacterrecognition #computationaljournalism #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #simonwillison #derekwillis #raykurzweil #mistralocr #chatgpt #chatgtp #mistral #biz⁢ #tech #pdfs #ocr #ai

Presenting: Another open-source gem that’ll finally make your #PDFs readable, assuming you can figure out how to enable #JavaScript and have the patience of a saint . Because, really, who doesn’t love converting documents one error at a time?
https://olmocr.allenai.org/ #openSource #documentConversion #techHumor #developerLife #HackerNews #ngated

#AskFedi: What’s the best FOSS app on Android for scanning photos and documents into #PDFs while keeping that real scanner look? I am looking, in particular, for a privacy-respecting (trustworthy for personal docs), and available on F-Droid.

Any recommendations? #FOSS #Android #Privacy #Scanner #FDroid

#monitoring-Fails: Um Reports aus #icinga2 zu erstellen, sollen #pdfs generiert werden - gut! Aber warum muss dafür ein Internetbrowser installiert werden? Warum kein #ghostscript? Das ist genau dafür gedacht...

MT @Ishaank1999@x.com
#PDFs are satan’s file format.

Almost everyone that builds RAG needs to deal with them - and it sucks.

Solutions on the market are either too slow, too expensive or not OSS.

It should be easier. Which is why we’re open sourcing https://chunkr.ai

How to Edit Text in #PDFs on #Linux with #ONLYOFFICE

https://www.tecmint.com/edit-pdf-linux-onlyoffice/

I often write longer articles and would like to publish them in various formats: printable #PDFs, #HTML, #EPUB, and maybe raw text too.

I'm already comfortable using Git for version control and I am not a big fan of #WYSIWYG.

Do you have any recommendations for tools, formats or editors that would work well for this? Or should I embrace the manual optimization process for each output format and learn to enjoy it?

Schau hier! Eine #LibreOffice-Funktion, die du vielleicht noch nicht kennst Beim Exportieren eines #PDFs bettet die Option „Hybrid-PDF‟ die Originaldatei ein. Dann kann jeder mit einem PDF-Reader die Datei ansehen - und LibreOffice-Nutzer können sie auch bearbeiten:
https://de.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/04/16/kurz-tipp-erstellen-von-hybriden-pdf-dateien-in-libreoffice/
#foss #OpenSource

I just learned about #Dangerzone:

Take potentially #dangerous #PDFs, #office #documents, or images and convert them to #safe #PDF documents

Homepage: https://dangerzone.rocks/

@dangerzone #GitHub: https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone