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Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#61

Maybe you mean "turn any web-article in to a document" ? It seems to search for the largest body of text and omit the rest.

You are right. We need to change the headline to reflect this, even if the end goal is to turn any web page into a doc.

fixed the new title is : Transform any web article into a document

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#62

1) the zipped download has always the same name, becomes quickly confusing if you're grabbing several pages. Maybe adding a timestamp or, better, a title snippet could help. 2) found html tags and incorrect whitespace when exporting to TXT this page: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning I want to try this tool with pages that Instapaper fails to grab.

we fixed all those point

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For zip file it is not just to save bandwidth, it is also to save disk space as we don't know yet how many user will use it, we preferred to be cautious but in the future you are right we can give straight the file once we know how much disk space will be needed to sustain it. For the returned document name, this is up to discussion if a lot of user ask for it we will change it. Thanks for using the apps and for your…

You can store it gziped on your disks, just add 'Content-Encoding' and 'Content-Type' headers while returning it and remove .zip extension.

fixed

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For zip file it is not just to save bandwidth, it is also to save disk space as we don't know yet how many user will use it, we preferred to be cautious but in the future you are right we can give straight the file once we know how much disk space will be needed to sustain it. For the returned document name, this is up to discussion if a lot of user ask for it we will change it. Thanks for using the apps and for your…

I do conversions like this as part of an app, and I never save to disk - I create the file in memory, and return it directly to the HTTP response as a file download. What stack are you running that makes you save to disk? (Because that also would be a deal-breaker for using this on confidential documents, if you ever allow uploads)

For upload we could do file i/o in memory, our stack allow us. But right now if we did it in memory we would run out of memory.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

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post #53

I 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.princ…

all fixed

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#66
post #9

I can't put down a person for effort, but this tool doesn't work at all. Over half the pages I tried are missing content entirely.

If can please send us just the domain name that failed at: hn at documentcyborg.com , we will fix all the problem that you encountered on theses domain.

I casually tried it on a reddit post but all I got was one line:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/50neqc/will_future_u...

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#67

Feature Suggestion: single-page pdfs that look like in the browser. (basicly like the result of a fireshot screenshot in a pdf, but keeping the text as text, not an image) Great for offlineish portfolios.

https://fprin.tf does that, but... "this service is still in beta and probably not ready for production use yet" and it doesn't seem to target the same users as https://documentcyborg.com

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

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post #68

This is a useful service. However, I picked the first link on medium.com and the PDF conversion didn't go that well. The layout of some of text gets messed up. https://medium.com/@subes01/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-val...

The layout for doc,odt,epub,rtf,txt is as good as the medium article, for the pdf you are right, we are fixing our pdf renderer to not overflow element right now. Will keep you updated once done.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

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post #68

This is a useful service. However, I picked the first link on medium.com and the PDF conversion didn't go that well. The layout of some of text gets messed up. https://medium.com/@subes01/this-is-your-life-in-silicon-val...

The layout for doc,odt,epub,rtf,txt is as good as the medium article, for the pdf you are right, we are fixing our pdf renderer to not overflow element right now. Will keep you updated once done.

On some epub reader we have also an overflow, fixing it now, will let you know once fixed.
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