Office workers are spending way too much on AI too

David Gerard ( dgerard@awful.systems ) · 5 months ago

Office workers are spending way too much on AI too

Soyweiser ( Soyweiser@awful.systems ) · 5 months ago

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.

flaviat ( flaviat@awful.systems ) · 4 months ago

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)

froztbyte ( froztbyte@awful.systems ) · 4 months ago

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

it’s deeply fucking frustrating

Soyweiser ( Soyweiser@awful.systems ) · 4 months ago

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.

diz ( diz@awful.systems ) · 4 months ago

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

0x5f3759df ( 0x5f3759df@programming.dev ) · 4 months ago

Look into pandoc

Soyweiser ( Soyweiser@awful.systems ) · 4 months ago

Thanks