Re:Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
by driverdan on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:36AM
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Why would you want to convert a PNG to PDF? I don't understand the point.
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Re:Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
by growt on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:50AM
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As I wrote above, I build a bunch of converters. If PNG to PDF has no use for you, then maybe heic to jpg, or tiff to png, or webp to jpg?
If you already have a quick and good solution for all of these (or you never need to convert in any of those ways), then that's fine too.
Re:Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
by acadiasprings on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:22AM
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One example is that students often have to turn in files in PDF format but may not have a scanner for handwritten papers. It's not amazing quality, but this let's you take a photo with your phone and convert it to PDF for submission.
Re:Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
by KMnO4 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:33AM
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There are bespoke tools for scanning documents with your phone and exporting to PDF. The quality is MUCH better this way, as it automatically crops, aligns, and dewarps the image, plus applies filters to adjust the colours. You would have a hard time differentiating this from a proper scan.
(For example, Microsoft Lens: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/microsoft-lens-pdf-scanner/id9...)
Re:Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
by growt on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:48AM
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That's true. But in the situation with my accountant that led to me developing this, I already had a bunch of files on my computer. Some were screenshots of emails, some were photos, so this was a handy way to combine them all.
Re:Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser
by readme on Thursday March 10, 2022 @09:01AM
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So you can make things like this: https://i.imgur.com/uq4a4PY.png