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In 2025 LLMs can 'fake it' using Trilobites of memory and Petaflops. It's funny actually, like a supercomputer being emulated in real time on a really fast Jacquard loom. By 2027 even simple hand held calculator addition will be billed in kilowatt-hours.
I would really like a tool to reliably get the title of PDF. It is not as easy as it seems. If the PDF exists online (say a paper or course notes) a bonus would be to find that or related metadata.
Looking at the code, this converts PDF pages to images, then transcribes each image. I might have expected a pdftotext post-processor. The complexity of PDF I guess ...
Does anyone have a suggestion for locally converting PDFs of handwriting into text, say on a recent Mac? Use case would be converting handwritten journals and daily note-taking.
Please add a license file. Thanks!
Almost perfect, the PDF I tested it missed only a few symbols. But that is something I will use for sure. Thank you.
I presume this doesn't handle handwriting. Does anyone have a suggestion for locally converting PDFs of handwriting into text, say on a recent Mac? Use case would be converting handwritten journals and daily note-taking.
UPDATE: I just tried this with the default model on handwriting, and IT WORKED. Took about 5-10 minutes on my laptop, but it worked. I am so thrilled not to have to send my personal jottings into the cloud!
I presume this doesn't handle handwriting. Does anyone have a suggestion for locally converting PDFs of handwriting into text, say on a recent Mac? Use case would be converting handwritten journals and daily note-taking.
I presume this doesn't handle handwriting. Does anyone have a suggestion for locally converting PDFs of handwriting into text, say on a recent Mac? Use case would be converting handwritten journals and daily note-taking.
1. https://github.com/pnshiralkar/text-to-handwriting/blob/mast...