#pdfs — Public Fediverse posts

Tip of the day: Smart groups are a good way to view items matching specific criteria, like all the flagged #PDFs in your #DEVONthink database. While it’s easy enough to make a smart group, if you find yourself doing the same search over and over, you can use it to create a smart group in a few clicks. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240102-reuse-search-devonthink-smartgroup

📰: Oh, the Herculean odyssey of making #PDFs that you can actually interact with—who knew it required a PhD in the arcane arts of .md and BIS H1H2H3H4H5 🤦‍♂️! But no worries, just master the ✨ mystic art ✨ of "clicking beside a block" and you're practically a wizard. 🔮✨
https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation #Interactivity #PDFMastery #MysticArt #TechHumor #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

📰: Oh, the Herculean odyssey of making #PDFs that you can actually interact with—who knew it required a PhD in the arcane arts of .md and BIS H1H2H3H4H5 🤦‍♂️! But no worries, just master the ✨ mystic art ✨ of "clicking beside a block" and you're practically a wizard. 🔮✨
https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation #Interactivity #PDFMastery #MysticArt #TechHumor #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

📰: Oh, the Herculean odyssey of making #PDFs that you can actually interact with—who knew it required a PhD in the arcane arts of .md and BIS H1H2H3H4H5 🤦‍♂️! But no worries, just master the ✨ mystic art ✨ of "clicking beside a block" and you're practically a wizard. 🔮✨
https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation #Interactivity #PDFMastery #MysticArt #TechHumor #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

📰: Oh, the Herculean odyssey of making #PDFs that you can actually interact with—who knew it required a PhD in the arcane arts of .md and BIS H1H2H3H4H5 🤦‍♂️! But no worries, just master the ✨ mystic art ✨ of "clicking beside a block" and you're practically a wizard. 🔮✨
https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation #Interactivity #PDFMastery #MysticArt #TechHumor #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

📰: Oh, the Herculean odyssey of making #PDFs that you can actually interact with—who knew it required a PhD in the arcane arts of .md and BIS H1H2H3H4H5 🤦‍♂️! But no worries, just master the ✨ mystic art ✨ of "clicking beside a block" and you're practically a wizard. 🔮✨
https://sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation #Interactivity #PDFMastery #MysticArt #TechHumor #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

"PDFs putzen": @jplie hat in netbib einen linktipp dazu:
https://netbib.hypotheses.org/78649526
"Viele #PDFs haben zuwenig Metadaten, könnten mehr gebrauchen. Jedoch gibt es auch das Gegenteil, wenn sie zuviel haben und man sie gern putzen möchte, damit sie nicht unwillkürlich zuviel verraten. Wie zum Beispiel beim Journalismus und hier insbesondere für den Quellenschutz. Die 58. Ausgabe des Online-Recherche Newsletters stellt mehrere Tools vor, um das zu erledigen."

yfedoseev/pdf_oxide: The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

"The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0."

https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide

#documents #pdfs #python #rust

🍔 Welcome to the Library of Congress' attempt to digitize your greasy spoon nostalgia with all the charm of a government form. 📚 Why settle for syrup-soaked memories when you can drown in a sea of ISSNs and acronyms? 🥞 Because nothing says "Classic American Diner" like a downloadable PDF! 🤦‍♂️
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ #LibraryOfCongress #DigitalNostalgia #AmericanDiner #FoodHistory #PDFs #GreasySpoon #HackerNews #ngated

🍔 Welcome to the Library of Congress' attempt to digitize your greasy spoon nostalgia with all the charm of a government form. 📚 Why settle for syrup-soaked memories when you can drown in a sea of ISSNs and acronyms? 🥞 Because nothing says "Classic American Diner" like a downloadable PDF! 🤦‍♂️
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ #LibraryOfCongress #DigitalNostalgia #AmericanDiner #FoodHistory #PDFs #GreasySpoon #HackerNews #ngated

🍔 Welcome to the Library of Congress' attempt to digitize your greasy spoon nostalgia with all the charm of a government form. 📚 Why settle for syrup-soaked memories when you can drown in a sea of ISSNs and acronyms? 🥞 Because nothing says "Classic American Diner" like a downloadable PDF! 🤦‍♂️
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ #LibraryOfCongress #DigitalNostalgia #AmericanDiner #FoodHistory #PDFs #GreasySpoon #HackerNews #ngated

🍔 Welcome to the Library of Congress' attempt to digitize your greasy spoon nostalgia with all the charm of a government form. 📚 Why settle for syrup-soaked memories when you can drown in a sea of ISSNs and acronyms? 🥞 Because nothing says "Classic American Diner" like a downloadable PDF! 🤦‍♂️
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ #LibraryOfCongress #DigitalNostalgia #AmericanDiner #FoodHistory #PDFs #GreasySpoon #HackerNews #ngated

🐢💤 Oh wow, hold the phone everyone! The #GNU #libc #atanh is now "correctly rounded"—a riveting #update surely to shake the very foundations of #digital #arithmetic. 📈😴 Meanwhile, the entire planet remains blissfully unaware, as another groundbreaking #breakthrough is drowned in a sea of #jargon and #PDFs. 📚🔍
https://inria.hal.science/hal-05591661 #HackerNews #ngated

boss: we want to train a ServiceBot on our #documentation

me: here you go <gives #PDFs>

boss: ServiceBot says these PDFs are too big

me: isn't parsing vast amounts of #data to answer questions and distill salient takeaways supposed to be a key feature of these #LLM bots?

boss:

me: ;)

boss: >:(

me: =D

Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

https://veil.simoneamico.com/

#HackerNews #Veil #DarkMode #PDFs #BrowserImages #PDFTools

Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

https://veil.simoneamico.com/

#HackerNews #Veil #DarkMode #PDFs #BrowserImages #PDFTools

Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

https://veil.simoneamico.com/

#HackerNews #Veil #DarkMode #PDFs #BrowserImages #PDFTools

Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

https://veil.simoneamico.com/

#HackerNews #Veil #DarkMode #PDFs #BrowserImages #PDFTools

Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser

https://veil.simoneamico.com/

#HackerNews #Veil #DarkMode #PDFs #BrowserImages #PDFTools

Add #geospatial #PDFs to your #ArcGIS Field #Maps workflows https://tinyurl.com/3k6n7ety

#FieldOperations #mobile #GIS #DataCollection #esri #mapping #GISchat #geospatial @esri @esrifederalgovt @esrislgov @arcgisapps @esritraining @urisa

Tip of the day: Smart groups are a good way to view items matching specific criteria, like all the flagged #PDFs in your #DEVONthink database. While it’s easy enough to make a smart group, if you find yourself doing the same search over and over, you can use it to create a smart group in a few clicks. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240102-reuse-search-devonthink-smartgroup

Tip of the day: When it comes to #PDF documents, what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Just because you can read words in the document doesn’t mean it is searchable. Or perhaps you have a searchable #PDF but it’s still not found in a search in #DEVONthink. Here are a few ways to deal with such #PDFs. #macos #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230418-pdf-searchable

Tip of the day: When it comes to #PDF documents, what you see and what is actually there can be two different things. Just because you can read words in the document doesn’t mean it is searchable. Or perhaps you have a searchable #PDF but it’s still not found in a search in #DEVONthink. Here are a few ways to deal with such #PDFs. #macos #paperless #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230418-pdf-searchable

Tip of the day: If you have a need to watermark or put identifying information on #PDFs or images, the Pro and Server editions of #DEVONthink can do this for you. It’s called imprinting and we show you how you set up and use it. #paperless #pdf #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/202040709-imprint-documents

I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs

https://github.com/cosmiciron/vmprint

#HackerNews #zero-browser #pure-js #typesetting #engine #bit-perfect #PDFs #vmprint

Stop fighting with your PDF layouts. 📐📄🤺

Host #Gotenberg on Lagoon!

Gotenberg provides a clean #API for converting #HTML, #Markdown, and Office documents to #PDFs, powered by a stateless, Docker-based architecture.

Deploy it on Lagoon and gain:
✅ Full container isolation
✅ Consistent rendering
✅ Easy scalability

Keep your infrastructure lean and your document generation reliable. 📄✨

Check out the guide:
https://www.amazee.io/blog/post/html-to-pdf-with-gotenberg-hosted-on-lagoon

Tip of the day: The Content inspectors in #DEVONthink 4 are especially useful for #PDFs, as they provide an overview of the document. You get a table of contents and thumbnails of the document’s pages. With #DEVONthink 4, you can also customize a #PDF’s outline. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250520-devonthink-pdf-content-inspectors

Tip of the day: When doing research and taking notes, it is often helpful to link to specific parts of text in documents, especially #PDFs. #DEVONthink has two special copy and paste commands that make such linking very fast and effective. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250610-paste-text-with-source-link

Ah, the brave new world where your #PDFs can finally live in witness protection without being "cloud-napped." 🚫☁️ Because clearly, what the internet truly lacked was yet another tool to wrangle those elusive PDF files…locally! 🤦‍♂️ Enjoy your newfound #privacy while you think about how often you actually need this. Spoiler: it's not that often. 📄🔒
https://pdfwithlove.netlify.app #PDFTools #LocalStorage #DigitalSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the brave new world where your #PDFs can finally live in witness protection without being "cloud-napped." 🚫☁️ Because clearly, what the internet truly lacked was yet another tool to wrangle those elusive PDF files…locally! 🤦‍♂️ Enjoy your newfound #privacy while you think about how often you actually need this. Spoiler: it's not that often. 📄🔒
https://pdfwithlove.netlify.app #PDFTools #LocalStorage #DigitalSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the brave new world where your #PDFs can finally live in witness protection without being "cloud-napped." 🚫☁️ Because clearly, what the internet truly lacked was yet another tool to wrangle those elusive PDF files…locally! 🤦‍♂️ Enjoy your newfound #privacy while you think about how often you actually need this. Spoiler: it's not that often. 📄🔒
https://pdfwithlove.netlify.app #PDFTools #LocalStorage #DigitalSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the brave new world where your #PDFs can finally live in witness protection without being "cloud-napped." 🚫☁️ Because clearly, what the internet truly lacked was yet another tool to wrangle those elusive PDF files…locally! 🤦‍♂️ Enjoy your newfound #privacy while you think about how often you actually need this. Spoiler: it's not that often. 📄🔒
https://pdfwithlove.netlify.app #PDFTools #LocalStorage #DigitalSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Doom Guard RPG & Archetypes PDFs for Savage Worlds—Now Available!
https://peginc.com/doom-guard-rpg-archetypes-pdfs-for-savage-worlds-now-available/ #NecessaryEvil #SavageWorlds #NewRelease #Archetypes #DoomGuard #News #PDFs

Doom Guard RPG & Archetypes PDFs for Savage Worlds—Now Available!
https://peginc.com/doom-guard-rpg-archetypes-pdfs-for-savage-worlds-now-available/ #NecessaryEvil #SavageWorlds #NewRelease #Archetypes #DoomGuard #News #PDFs

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-4/

#HackerNews #Snowden #PDFs #Metadata #Analysis #Information #Security #Privacy

🎉🥳 In today's thrilling episode of "Tech Genius," someone on #GitHub created a tool to make #PDFs look like they were scanned, because apparently, the world was desperately lacking in fake nostalgia for fax machines 📠. Who knew that the pinnacle of #innovation would be making digital documents as annoyingly unreadable as possible? 🙄🚀
https://github.com/Francium-Tech/scanify #TechGenius #FakeNostalgia #DigitalDocuments #HackerNews #ngated

I made a tool to make PDFs look scanned because bureaucracy

https://github.com/Francium-Tech/scanify

#HackerNews #PDFs #Scanned #Bureaucracy #Tool #GitHub #Scanify

Deadlands® Dark Ages PDFs Are Now Available!
https://peginc.com/deadlands-dark-ages-pdfs-are-now-available/ #Deadlands:DarkAges #PledgeManager #DriveThruRPG #SavageWorlds #Kickstarter #NewRelease #News #PDFs

Released v1.17.0 of The Pdfalyzer, the surprisingly popular tool for analyzing (possibly malicious) PDFs I created after my own unpleasant experience. Now ships with two command line tools for extracting stuff from PDF files:

1. extract_text_from_pdfs() - brute force extract all text from a PDF, including doing an #OCR extraction of any embedded images

2. extract_pdf_pages() - rip a page range from a #PDF and write them to a new one

* Github: https://github.com/michelcrypt4d4mus/pdfalyzer
* Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pdfalyzer/
* Homebrew: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pdfalyzer
* Fun thread someone made last week using Pdfalyzer to explain some of how byzantine the PDF format is: https://x.com/VikParuchuri/status/1965773078585344215

#pypi #python #pdf #pdfs #malware #Threatassessment #maldoc #malwareanalysis #homebrew #infosec #cybersecurity #yararule #PdfFies

Oh boy, another #CTAN package! 🤣 Get ready for a thrilling ride through "The #LaTeX Companion," where you'll find edge-of-your-seat excitement like... #PDFs used with spotcolor! 🎨📄 Strap in for the ultimate #adventure in #typesetting monotony! 😂
https://ctan.org/pkg/tlc3-examples #Spotcolor #HackerNews #ngated

Tip of the day: When doing research and taking notes, it is often helpful to link to specific parts of text in documents, especially #PDFs. #DEVONthink has two special copy and paste commands that make such linking very fast and effective. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250610-paste-text-with-source-link

I really wish there was a keyboard-driven #PDF viewer like #Zathura, #MuPDF, or #SioYek that let you fill out forms and annotate #PDFs.

That would be da bomb.

CVE-2025-48708: #ghostscript can embed plaintext #password in encrypted #PDFs 😶

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/23/2

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie. 😄

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

Just released version 1.16.8 of The Pdfalyzer with a bunch of new and updated #YARA rules to scan #PDF files for malicious content. Links in the quoted toot below.

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114768170683991686

#ascii #asciiArt #blueteam #cybersecurity #detectionEngineering #DFIR #forensics #FOSS #hacking #homebrew #infosec #KaliLinux #malware #malwareDetection #malwareAnalysis #openSource #pdf #pdfs #pdfalyzer #pypi #python #redteam #reverseEngineering #reversing #Threatassessment #threathunting #yaralyze #yaralyzer #YARA #YARArule #YARArules

Deadlands Humble Bundle MEGABUNDLE Available Now
https://peginc.com/deadlands-humble-bundle-megabundle-available-now/ #Deadlands:Reloaded #HumbleBundle #Deadlands #Charity #News #Sale #PDFs

Transforming Your PDFs for RAG with Open Source Using Docling, Milvus, and Feast

https://github.com/feast-dev/feast/tree/master/examples/rag-docling

#HackerNews #Transforming #Your #PDFs #for #RAG #with #Open #Source #Using #Docling #Milvus #and #Feast

open-source #RAG #PDFs #Docling #Milvus #Feast