The AI push runs on setting venture capital money on fire and charging chatbot users way less than the bot costs to serve. The idea is that the customers will get hooked on the business value. Then…
  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    6 days 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@awful.systemsEnglish
      5·
      5 days 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)

      • diz@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        12 hours ago

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

      • froztbyte@awful.systems
        English
        4·
        4 days 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@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          4 days 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.