Re:Mutt email client 25 years old
by peteretep on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:58AM
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Headless browser + OCR ... how hard can it be?!
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Re:Mutt email client 25 years old
by philjackson on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:20AM
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Are you being sarcastic? Very hard probably.
I’m ... not sure. There’s a limit to how complicated emails are in 99% of non-spam HTML emails, right? You’re working with a limited subset of HTML meant to be reflowed to small screens pretty easily, and the task here is to extract text content into a form that can then be shown in a terminal.
I would — at the very least — think it was worth giving a go