• smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      6 months ago

      To be honest I do not like PDF readers being bundled in browser’s binaries, I see web rendering engines themselfs as a pile of legacy impossible to rewrite spaghetti.
      Qutebrowser for example has PDF.js as an optional, installable dependency. I guess Firefox can be recompiled without PDF support, if someone wants to save those… 3MB. But just that my Linux mind has slight aversion to bundling stuff in single binary, because on Linux installing 1 or 100 programs if they are packaged takes the same time.

      Ah. And some commands for PDFs are really useful :P.
      For example I used convert file.jpg file.pdf to upload couple of documents I had scanned as pictures but website required a PDF extension.

      • NoFun4You@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Nice.

        The question I have is does tesseract do better OCR on pdfs than chat GPT lol

        Also obligatory fuck Adobe.