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Same here. No (F)OSS licenses to be found on the page itself. Sus. Perhaps it is simply injecting remote root vulnerabilities into the PDF's.
I hope those are FOSS remote root PDF vulns!
Here you have what Adobe has to say about PDF's: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/resources/can-pdfs-contain-vir...
What do people use to perform those pdf tasks without uploading sensitive files to a website?
Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…
Very true, but I'd wish this "common" knowledge is more widespread. Security is a major issue commonly overlooked. People do a lot of insecure things for convenience.
Unfortunately, most of the PDF work I do involves things I’m not uploading to a service - ever. I don’t care if they’re “deleted immediately after processing” - they left my control. This sort of software would be great if it were 100% offline. This isn’t just a niche issue either: this is a very real consideration for any corporate user. More companies are taking data loss and security issues seriously, which often…
What do people use to perform those pdf tasks without uploading sensitive files to a website?
The files are deleted immediately after processing I'm considering implementing WebAssembly (Wasm) to do most of the work on the client's device and enable offline use
When you get to the stage of monetizing the site, I expect the most obvious starting point is monetizing the information inside the pdfs.
Then there's the obscurity of how much (if any) is passed on to other services (like google). You may have one policy about the PDFs, they may gave another.
So yeah, I'm in the "not for general use" camp myself. (Although there are edge cases where it may be useful.)
Don't get me wrong, I can see the upsides, and your web site looks professional, but alas the downsides are too significant to overcome the inconvenience of searching out something local.
Anybody have a good open-source receipt data extraction tool for PDFs?
However, we understand that privacy concerns are really important for many organizations. Making it self-hostable and depend on a locally running LLM is something that we are looking into.