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

#71

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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.

both issue are now fixed, the epub and pdf renderer is now working correctly

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

#72
Nice UI, but it doesn't work in my case. I've tried a bunch of urls from stackexchange and the output is not readable (not properly formatted). But anyway, what I suggest to do is to add feature that I'm looking for (and maybe not only me?) is to convert website to some kind of book, for example in pdf. As I remember Adobe PDF has this functionality included, but I 'm not aware of any web app that can do this. So, basically you can parse whole website and create book out of it. So, anyway good luck!

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

#73

Nice UI, but it doesn't work in my case. I've tried a bunch of urls from stackexchange and the output is not readable (not properly formatted). But anyway, what I suggest to do is to add feature that I'm looking for (and maybe not only me?) is to convert website to some kind of book, for example in pdf. As I remember Adobe PDF has this functionality included, but I 'm not aware of any web app that can do this. So, ba…

We tried several stackexchange url and it did work, for example : http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/92138/the-letter... which has a complicated layout, generate an epub or anything else and you will see the quality is good, we agree that the pdf renderer is not as good as the other yet but we are working on it. If you pls send us at hn at documentcyborg.com or via comment here on hn the link that didn't work so we can get better that would be great. For the book idea the problem is when to stop, if you make a book out of amazon it will take years. Maybe the possibility to add several url and from that generate a "book" document. Thanks for trying the apps, we just wished it was up to your standard but we are constantly improving it since 3 day ago when we launched, so hopefully we will get there soon.

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

#74

Nice UI, but it doesn't work in my case. I've tried a bunch of urls from stackexchange and the output is not readable (not properly formatted). But anyway, what I suggest to do is to add feature that I'm looking for (and maybe not only me?) is to convert website to some kind of book, for example in pdf. As I remember Adobe PDF has this functionality included, but I 'm not aware of any web app that can do this. So, ba…

We tried several stackexchange url and it did work, for example : http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/92138/the-letter... which has a complicated layout, generate an epub or anything else and you will see the quality is good, we agree that the pdf renderer is not as good as the other yet but we are working on it. If you pls send us at hn at documentcyborg.com or via comment here on hn the link that didn't wor…

For example I've tried this one: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/102555/automatically-.... Only question text saved into document. As for the book from urls, there could be some options how deep to scan urls, only from current page or all subpage, etc.

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

#75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We tried several stackexchange url and it did work, for example : http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/92138/the-letter... which has a complicated layout, generate an epub or anything else and you will see the quality is good, we agree that the pdf renderer is not as good as the other yet but we are working on it. If you pls send us at hn at documentcyborg.com or via comment here on hn the link that didn't wor…

For example I've tried this one: http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/102555/automatically-... . Only question text saved into document. As for the book from urls, there could be some options how deep to scan urls, only from current page or all subpage, etc.

OK understood, for the moment we get only the main content, we are working on a new "parser"that can fetch the main content and comment attached to it. For this you are right we don't extract content but we expect to have this released soon. For the book you are right, we will think about it and how to integrate it. Thanks for the feedback, this is greatly appreciated.

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

#76
Great!! Works like a charm... :-)

While you're at it, why not throw in the conversion to a few (popular) image formats as well? I can think of (at least) some scenarios where that would come in quite handy (e.g. posting long articles to Twitter).

All the best moving forward.

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

#77

Great!! Works like a charm... :-) While you're at it, why not throw in the conversion to a few (popular) image formats as well? I can think of (at least) some scenarios where that would come in quite handy (e.g. posting long articles to Twitter). All the best moving forward.

Nice to hear, we are thinking about adding image export and also markdown export. We are awaiting more feedback regarding those two and based on that we will move forward. Thanks for your comment.
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