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It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
Does that one have a name? I’m a MacOS transplant and have never gotten terribly familiar with the territory. Thanks!
I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found… I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?
How easy or difficult would it be to turn this into an electron app so that non-technical users can use it easily too?
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Still waiting for GPT4V but doubt it will do this. Yes I’ve tried Donut and other options but this is a very gnarly problem. One option is to extract text blocks along with their coordinates (unstructured.io gives this, probably based on another pkg because it’s basically a container for many pigs). Then do the same with a blank template, and you then have an algorithmic problem of matching the filled values spatiall…
I'm fairly confident GPT-4V will do this just fine, tbh. You just need to extract each of the elements into a structured JSON or something, right? I'll try with your example later today.
Let me know how GPT-4V does!
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…
This could be a paid option for parsing forms (not sure about ocr): https://demos.textcontrol.com/chapter/topic/PDF/PDFFormData https://www.textcontrol.com/technologies/pdf/
I have a PDF problem that I thought was simple but has proven difficult to solve and there is no paid solution I’ve found… I want to forward an email to an inbox, have the email body converted into a PDF, and then email that attachment to someone all automatically. I’ve tried Make, Zapier, pdf.co, pdftool, and a few other tools but have had no success. Has anyone solved this problem reliably?
Email me and I’ll give you access for free.
[0] https://www.pdf.to [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23238862 [2] https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF [3] https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF#technologies-used
It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
It's scary how such a widely used format (PDF) is almost in full control by Adobe. I have yet to see a true competitor to Adobe Acrobat. The only one that has come really close is the one that comes built-in for macOS. It's a hidden gem.
PDF had an open spec and oodles of programs supporting it. I don't understand where this comment is coming from.