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The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs (sdocs.dev)
josefrichter 56 minutes ago [-]
It’s not that surprising. It’s one of those well known pandora boxes of web development: email templates, PDFs, printing,…
FailMore 36 minutes ago [-]
Ah, I didn't know that. It's not something I had worked on before, and the file format is highly prevalent (so I assumed things would be easy), so it was surprising to me
SirHumphrey 3 minutes ago [-]
Nothing about PDF is easy. Similarly to what once Tom Scott said about time zones, every time I must deal with PDFs I pray that PDF.js can be hacked in to doing it instead, otherwise I just don’t bother.

It’s on of the few examples when converting it in to picture and chucking it in a multimodal llm is a more sensible solution than trying to parse it.

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