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David Gerard awful.systems dgerard@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Gotta burn ’em all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miTfCnyrpw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260625-office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too - podcast

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Soyweiser awful.systems Soyweiser@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-09-07
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So, anybody know the regular linux commands to turn a pdf into markdown? I assume there is a simple command that does that for you, if there isn't already a pdf2markdown.

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0x5f3759df programming.dev 0x5f3759df@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-17
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So, anybody know the regular linux commands to turn a pdf into markdown? I assume there is a simple command that does that for you, if there isn't already a pdf2markdown.

Look into pandoc

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flaviat awful.systems flaviat@awful.systems
Joined: 2025-02-14
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So, anybody know the regular linux commands to turn a pdf into markdown? I assume there is a simple command that does that for you, if there isn't already a pdf2markdown.

There cannot be such a thing since pdf does not structure its data. There is an extension to the standard that would let a program do it for you but nobody uses it (PDF/UA-1). (also pandoc is vibe coded now)

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froztbyte awful.systems froztbyte@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-07-02
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There cannot be such a thing since pdf does not structure its data. There is an extension to the standard that would let a program do it for you but nobody uses it (PDF/UA-1). (also pandoc is vibe coded now)

yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul

it's deeply fucking frustrating

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Soyweiser awful.systems Soyweiser@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-09-07
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yeah, my answer to this also used to be pandoc until they took the prompt unto their soul it's deeply fucking frustrating

That sucks so much. But thanks anyway everybody, my post was half shitpost, half serious. (And I know some things can't be easily converted, (but my regexp to match xhtml script is almost complete).

I'm a bit surprised (but not totally) there actually was a proper tool for it a bit, even if it is vibe corrupted now.

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Soyweiser awful.systems Soyweiser@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-09-07
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Look into pandoc

Thanks

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diz awful.systems diz@awful.systems
Joined: 2023-07-13
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There cannot be such a thing since pdf does not structure its data. There is an extension to the standard that would let a program do it for you but nobody uses it (PDF/UA-1). (also pandoc is vibe coded now)

There could be but it would be difficult to implement - something a bit like putting together a shredded paper, heh.

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