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Re:Cormac McCarthy's personal library by noosphr on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:05PM (#45454835)
Drop me a line on my profiles email.

I'm playing around with using hyperlinks in pdfs to get around how much the www sucks for posting serious research with serious working code.

Caveat emptor: I'm first working on getting the basic groundwork out, like a pipeline that shows what you need to do to extract a scanned pdf in a quality that tesseract can actually get text out of.

Re:Cormac McCarthy's personal library by cxr on Thursday October 02, 2025 @11:22PM (#45458609)
> I'm first working on getting the basic groundwork out, like a pipeline that shows what you need to do to extract a scanned pdf in a quality that tesseract can actually get text out of.

Sounds like TBL's contribution doesn't suck so much after all.