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Re:Is Authorize.net Down? on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:21PM (#27988458)
>It's obviously propaganda but it is very interesting nonetheless.

Sorry, how is this video obviously propaganda?

Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:33AM (#22474720)
I had a similar problem and ended up using AWS' Textract tool to return the text as well as bounding box data for each letter, then overlayed that on a UI with an SVG of the original page, allowing the user to highlight handwritten and typed text. I plan to open source it so if anyone's interested let me know.

Not a fan of the potential vendor lock in though, so it's only really suitable for those in an already AWS environment not worried about them harvesting your data.