Is there anything this does (I've not looked at it) that a 'curl | pandoc' pipe wouldn't?
Just try it on wikipedia and you will see the diff.
Hrm. Font's small and linewidths too wide.
Interesting idea though.
Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
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Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#52Hmmm...
In some ways, Oh By[1] performs the exact opposite role. Which is to say, Oh By allows you to transform any document into a web page.
Well, any document 4096 characters or shorter ...
[1] https://0x.co
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#53I tried this wikihow link and it only extracts no more than a paragraph from webpage in pdf or word.
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Physical-Therapy-to-Relieve-Back-...
I don't understand what is the advantage of server side processing. I have always depended on Evernote Clearly and Redability mobilizer to turn any web page into nice text which can be copied and pasted on MS Word. Then I can use Prince (http://www.princexml.com/) to batch convert docx into whatever I want. If someone finds it slow then they can enable auto capture clipboard. press ctrl+` to enable Clearly, ctrl+A to select all text, ctrl+C to send it to clipboard.
I wish if someone can work on this to make it smother for a desktop users.
PS: I also make use of reading view mode of Firefox.
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#54Great tool, but reddit threads with a lot of comments only fetches the first one. I know it's quite hard with the child comments and the number of them, but I really wish there's a way to take them offline for me to read.
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#55I use the DuckDuckGo bang !pf to convert webpages into PDFs (got the tip from here: http://duckgobang.com) but your tool converts to multiple file formats which is even better.
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#56I use the DuckDuckGo bang !pf to convert webpages into PDFs (got the tip from here: http://duckgobang.com ) but your tool converts to multiple file formats which is even better.
We don't just convert to other format we try to extract the meaningful content only and not the whole page. Thank you very much for your positive comment.
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#57Bookmarked. I wish I would've had this back in May, while preparing exhibits for affidavits I was filing. I'll definitely be making use of this!
Thanks
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does seem to omit elements quite curiously. Just try using this submission as an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403661
Actually you are right this is correctly rendered in the pdf,doc,odt,epub export but not in the rtf and txt. We are working on fix.
fixed
Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry I forgot to mention : I generated a PDF. Later I tried a text export of the same page, some HTML remains ( elements). Using the title of the page to name the zip would be nice too.
We found some bug in the rtf and txt export, we are fixing them right now. We are going to change the way we serve the file either as user mixedbit suggested it or other that work for sure cross browser and trough proxy and so on. Thanks for the report.
all fixed
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should throw one of your programmers to the tiger for that terrible error message that doesn't communicate what the problem is.
We will fix the error message to ask for people to enable javascript. And now because you ask for it we throw one to the tiger, now let's hope we have enough programmers:)
we now have a proper error message