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Many thanks to humanity for failing to standardise PDF and this project for paying interest on that tech debt with datacenter levels of energy consumption.
> 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.
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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.
OP here, I added a sample PDF output in the project assets and put screenshots in the ReadMe. The text is selectable after rehydration. would this work with your app?
I wish an agent with a validation and rendering tools could instead manipulate the structure to accomplish those edits way less destructively, checking its progress with the tools.
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Try photopea next time
Wow - didnt know about this tool for PDF editing - thanks! https://www.photopea.com/ PS: in my quick test of editing a PDF text -- the output PDF had weirdly added an extra "&" symbol at the end of every existing line of text. will try out more to see if it was something in the input PDF that was causing it.
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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.
OP here, I added a sample PDF output in the project assets and put screenshots in the ReadMe. The text is selectable after rehydration. would this work with your app?
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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
I tend to use webm but I’m curious, is avif better (performance, size) for gif?
Basically, .avif is an "animated image" format, like .gif, but .webm is only a video format.
edit: just realized .webp i think can be an animated image! So that seems like the alternative
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I tend to use webm but I’m curious, is avif better (performance, size) for gif?
Webm is better in many ways, but it doesn't give you gif-like behavior I think. As in, you can't just include it in an tag and a get an autoplaying looping video. Though you can simulate it with . Basically, .avif is an "animated image" format, like .gif, but .webm is only a video format. edit: just realized .webp i think can be an animated image! So that seems like the alternative
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Wow - didnt know about this tool for PDF editing - thanks! https://www.photopea.com/ PS: in my quick test of editing a PDF text -- the output PDF had weirdly added an extra "&" symbol at the end of every existing line of text. will try out more to see if it was something in the input PDF that was causing it.
What is photopea built on?