Comment on Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping!

• observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44287043

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