CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Much like Adobe‘s Acrobat which I also have to use for work. At least from what I can tell when it suddenly summarizes a PDF. There‘s no way in hell that happens locally. But the fact that it seemingly automatically processes potentially sensitive data from customers didn‘t even do as little as raising eyebrows when I brought it up.
If your company has an enterprise/privacy agreement with Adobe, it might be considered addressed, similar to the millions of companies using Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint.
If, OTOH, it’s a “free” feature of Adobe, it could be eating your company’s data without constraints.
If the latter, let us know your company’s name so that we can avoid it.
No way in hell? My understanding is that an NPU could perform that type of processing locally. I welcome info & correction!
(I know other types of local ai processors could too, but there’s little chance Acrobat would be geared to look for them - even GPUs - unlike NPUs.)
Now if we switch to talking about policy instead of capability, I don’t think Adobe would miss a chance to be evil. So yeah they’re probably stealing all the data they possibly can.
few computers have an embedded NPU
True! More all the time, unfortunately. (Unfortunately because we’re paying for tech we don’t want.)
Also doesn’t negate my argument. He said no way in hell, yet… not only is there a way but it’s already out there.
oh I mostly agree, but forgot to include the quote. I wanted to say, all that AI processing probably does not happen offline
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
I use Firefox as a PDF reader at work. it’s better than Adobe Reader or Chrome, and it’s good enough, so I haven’t bothered finding something else.
I deal with secure information sometimes, in PDF form. I haven’t even considered that this information might not remain local.
lemming741@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Sumatra is the notepad++ of pdf readers (minus the state sponsored hackers notepad-plus-plus.org/…/hijacked-incident-info-up…)
github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
kazerniel@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Looks interesting! I can’t see it in their docs, can it display the font type and size of a selected text? I’ve been using PDF-XChange Viewer mostly for that feature. (Lol I just noticed it had no updates since 2018 😬)
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
I’ve been using it for ages whenever I need to open PDFs on Windows. Though nowadays browsers handle them too. And I avoid Windows.
It is genuinely excellent software.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I use KDE’s PDF reader Okular