Love this.
After several iterations of edits, would the image quality decrease?
Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
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Re: Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
#12Nice - but consider adding an animated screengrap like: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
Please don't add an animated gif to your README. Nothing worse than an autoplaying video with no controls, that has 10 frames but takes 5.4MB to download. Github supports normal video files. It allows the user to rewind or pause, and it results in a much smaller file size.
Re: Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
#13> Converts an image to a single-page PDF with a hidden text layer using Tesseract. This is the 'State Preservation' step. Does this mean the text only pdf page is transformed into an image that covers the full page, but the text is still under there. So, any machine based extraction would still get the text, but would probably loose all the bounding box information and regular users cannot just use their mouse to sel…
Seems true and really wish the project included some sample PDF output.
My Text to Speech app uses bounding box to display what text in PDF is being read and would not work well PDF's from this project.
Re: Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
#14Somewhat unrelated but can anyone recommend a way to edit the text of a PDF using LLM? Something like AI + acrobat pro?
Re: Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
#15Nice - but consider adding an animated screengrap like: https://github.com/pythops/oryx
Please don't add an animated gif to your README. Nothing worse than an autoplaying video with no controls, that has 10 frames but takes 5.4MB to download. Github supports normal video files. It allows the user to rewind or pause, and it results in a much smaller file size.
Generally agreed! though fun point of info: you can use the .avif format to get something that behaves just like a gif (auto-playing, no sound, no controls) but supports modern features (HDR/transparency channel) and is compressed as well as a modern video is, since its just AV1. And it's supported in most all modern browsers these days: https://caniuse.com/?search=avif
Re: Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
#16I like the example of updating latest market data. Updating a deck one-off is tedious. Keeping it updated long-term was never going to happen. But now it can
Re: Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana
#17I thought it was kinda funny that Google Slide’s own built in “beautify this slide” button converts the whole slide into an uneditable image.
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#19This is nuts and I absolutely love this. So you convert the PDF into image, edit the image, then convert the image back into a PDF.
This is the usual workflow dealing with pdfs (unfortunately)
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#20it will be more excited if i can use this feature in application with GUI, it’s now convenient to check the result after edit the PDF, i need to transfer between CLI and PDF reader