#fileformatfriday — Public Fediverse posts
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New blog post for #fileformatfriday - #PDF Quality assessment for #digitisation batches with #Python, #PyMuPDF and #Pillow. This introduces the new #Pdfquad tool, which might be useful for others as well:
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ICYMI - are "octal escape sequences" in #PDF strings really a preservation risk, as claimed by the authors of the recent "The Phantom 👻 of a PDF File" blog post?
Some quick tests I did with eight different PDF processing tools suggest they're not, and #JHOVE's inability to handle them really seems to be the exception here #wtfPDF #fileformatfriday
https://www.bitsgalore.org/2024/11/14/escape-from-the-phantom-of-the-pdf