Comment on Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping!
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I know the pain. While there are definitely solutions that work sometimes, there’s just no “one size fits all” that I’m aware of. PDFs can represent text very differently internally.
What I did for one project where extracting the text produced a complete mess was to convert the PDF pages to images and then OCR them…
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
StirlingPDF is basically 1 size fits all.
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Interesting, I’ll keep it in mind next time I have to deal with this problem (hopefully never but who knows).
A few years ago I was in contact with researchers that were developing an AI tool to parse PDFs (I think they didn’t care about converting to editable formats, but extracting data), from their material I got the impression that it’s extremely difficult to do right using traditional algorithms.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287043