• JackbyDev
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    26 hours ago

    That’s really cool! What I really would like is a tool that converts PDFs to semantic HTML files. I took a peek there and it seems easier for them because they have the original LeX source.

    I think for arbitrary PDFs files the information just isn’t there. I’ve looked into it a bit and it’s sort of all over. A tool called pdf2htmlex is pretty good but it makes the HTML look exactly like the PDF.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 hours ago

      Yes, PDFs are much more permissive and may not have any semantic information at all. Hell, some old publications are just scanned images!

      PDF -> semantic seems to be a hard problem that basically requires OCR, like these people are doing

      • JackbyDev
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        11 hour ago

        Oh nice, thanks for sharing that project. I haven’t heard of it before!