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Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I still couldn't find a tool for a difficult problem to solve. I have some magazines in PDF, with layouts in two columns, etc. I want them to be transformed into Markdown. I know, it should identify automatically the two columns, different layouts, etc. I am not desiring something perfect - I can fix if ther are some errors, but so far nothing has come with a good result.

Have you tried this (for at least solving part of the problem)?

https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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Nice. I've been looking for something like this to self-host, to avoid my partner uploading sensitive documents to random PDF manipulation websites. Any better alternatives I should be considering?

KDE’s Okular. Works on Linux, Windows and macOS.

If you’re on already macOS, Preview already has you covered.

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I’ll join some other commenters, to add my favorite difficult pdf problem that I haven’t found a ready to use (even paid) solution for: extract key value pairs from a filled form such as this medical claims form: https://imgur.com/a/EJDi7L7 There are two levels of difficulty: the starting file could be an image (pdf or png or jpg), which is the most difficult scenario. The slightly easier one is where it’s a text-bas…

Dev here for the above stirling pdf app, Please raise features like this as a feature request github issue ticket and we can try address it in future!

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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it says this started as a 100% chatGPT project!

What does it mean?

From my understanding they mean the code was generated by instructing OpenAI’s ChatGPT (contrary to writing the code themselves).

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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What I have mainly have been looking for in the free software ecosystem is a good tool to work with PDF tagging/structure/element attributes.

At work I really have only been able to do the work I need on random PDFs with Adobe Acrobat. It seems strange that this is the case as PDF is now an open standard.

Re: Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

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I’ll join some other commenters, to add my favorite difficult pdf problem that I haven’t found a ready to use (even paid) solution for: extract key value pairs from a filled form such as this medical claims form: https://imgur.com/a/EJDi7L7 There are two levels of difficulty: the starting file could be an image (pdf or png or jpg), which is the most difficult scenario. The slightly easier one is where it’s a text-bas…

Have you tried Azure AI Document Intelligence?

In theory it's exactly this...

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