Hacker News with Generative AI: PDF

Auntie PDF – an open source app built using Mistral OCR (auntiepdf.com)
Your all-knowing guide that unpacks every PDF into clear, actionable insights. Just like your favorite aunt, but for documents!

Open Source, OCR, Document Processing, PDF, Artificial Intelligence

95 points by bilater 23 hours ago | 39 comments

Tips for using Gemini 2.0 for PDF ingestion (sergey.fyi)

Generative AI, Google, PDF, AI

57 points by serjester 5 days ago | 7 comments

Ask HN: Where are the good Markdown to PDF tools (that meet these requirements)? (ycombinator.com)
I'm trying to convert a very large Markdown file (a couple hundred pages) to PDF.

Tools, Markdown, PDF, Conversion, Large Files

41 points by SamCoding 6 days ago | 55 comments

What can be computed? A practical guide to the theory of computation (2018) [pdf] (softouch.on.ca)

Computer Science, PDF, Books

94 points by nill0 9 days ago | 25 comments

OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs (allenai.org)

Open Source, OCR, PDF, Text Extraction, Software

313 points by eamag 11 days ago | 42 comments

Show HN: I built a free and open source pdf redaction tool (magicredact.com)
Need to hide confidential data from PDFs or images? Our free redaction tool makes it easy. Just upload your file, and we'll automatically detect and remove sensitive text. No manual work required.

Open Source, Software, Security, Privacy, PDF

5 points by joeytitanium 13 days ago | 3 comments

iText PDF Library turns 25 (itextpdf.com)
On 14th February 2000 the first public version of the iText PDF library was released to the open-source community. A quarter of a century later, Apryse is proudly celebrating with the release of iText Suite 9.1 on iText’s 25th anniversary, which is also Valentine’s Day! This release brings significantly expanded SVG and CSS support, huge performance increases, GraalVM for pdfHTML, and a whole lot of love!

Software, Open Source, Anniversaries, PDF, Libraries

57 points by alemos 19 days ago | 27 comments

Tea Extensions [pdf] (2006) (tayloredge.com)

Tea, PDF, Documents, Research, History

5 points by ColinWright 25 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure (github.com/desgeeko)
Inspecting the internal structure of a PDF file involves a lot of things (decompression, parsing, xref indexing, etc...) in order to make sense of the raw bytes.

HTML, PDF, Visualization, Programming, Open Source

451 points by desgeeko 27 days ago | 57 comments

Linux Running in a PDF (doompdf.dev)

Linux, Operating Systems, Security, PDF, Unusual Computing

329 points by theden 31 days ago | 104 comments

Linux running inside a PDF file via a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator (xda-developers.com)

Linux, RISC-V, Emulation, JavaScript, PDF

9 points by sxp 32 days ago | 2 comments

Mutool – all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files (mankier.com)
mutool is a tool based on MuPDF for dealing with document files in various manners. There are several sub commands available, as described below.

PDF, Tools, Software, Command Line

43 points by rahimnathwani 34 days ago | 16 comments

Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator (github.com/ading2210)
This is Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator, which is based on TinyEMU.

Operating Systems, Emulation, RISC-V, PDF

183 points by shantara 36 days ago | 36 comments

Show HN: Tetris in a PDF (th0mas.nl)

Show HN, Tetris, PDF, Programming

1289 points by ThomasRinsma 59 days ago | 223 comments

Tdf: Terminal-Based PDF Viewer (github.com/itsjunetime)
A terminal-based PDF viewer.

Command Line, PDF, Software

21 points by elashri 66 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: CxReports – Low-Code Tool for User-Facing PDF Reports (ycombinator.com)
Marko here from Codaxy. For over two years, we have been working on CxReports, a low-code tool for creating user-facing PDF documents and reports.

Software, Tools, Low-Code, PDF, Reports

12 points by mstijak 79 days ago | 6 comments

Copy, Paste, Invert, Forget (2011) [pdf] (atelier-hirschbichler.com)

Art, Design, PDF, 2011

6 points by bobbiechen 84 days ago | 2 comments

Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013) (invisiblethings.org)
Arguably one of the biggest challenges for desktop security is how to handle those overly complex PDFs, DOCs, and similar files, that are so often exchanged by people, or downloaded from the Web, and that often provide a way for the attacker to compromise the user's desktop system.

Security, PDF, Qubes OS

117 points by transpute 86 days ago | 45 comments

Show HN: I built a simple app to create PDF invoice (invoicepdf.dev)
Great tool for freelancers, small businesses, and anyone who needs to create professional invoices.

Software, Business, Freelancing, PDF, Invoicing

8 points by kokonutt_ 88 days ago | 1 comments

Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs (imaginarytext.ca)
I recently responded to someone on Mastodon who asked about producing decent-looking PDFs from markdown. I replied eagerly with “OMG Typst!” and linked to my earlier blogpost about developing an entire book layout template for Pandoc and Typst. The response I then received was this was “far beyond” what they need – and on reflection I had to admit that my blog post was a bit, well, niche.

Software, Markdown, PDF, Productivity

112 points by bribri 100 days ago | 19 comments

Windows 11 Security Book [pdf] (microsoft.com)

Windows, Security, Books, PDF

6 points by Harvesterify 117 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: CLI to export Markdown to PDF using Jinja2 templates (github.com/andy-verstraeten)
Mdexport is CLI tool to publish Markdown files as PDF using Jinja2 templates. You can use Frontmatter metadata as custom values to be filled into your template.

Markdown, PDF, Templates, Open Source

8 points by andyvtn 122 days ago | 1 comments

PgPDF: Pdf Type and Functions for Postgres (github.com/Florents-Tselai)
This extension for PostgreSQL provides a pdf data type.

Database, PostgreSQL, Data Types, PDF, Programming

97 points by fforflo 123 days ago | 55 comments

Show HN: Kis.tools – A directory of tools that work (kis.tools)
PDFgear is a breath of fresh air in the PDF tools landscape. It offers advanced features completely free while respecting user privacy with local processing in desktop apps. It's wonderful to find a comprehensive PDF tool that keeps things simple and genuinely free - we hope it stays this way for a long time!

Software, Tools, Open Source, Privacy, PDF

51 points by onuradsay 126 days ago | 19 comments

Tell HN: macOS Sequoia Preview app adds random passwords to PDFs upon Saving (ycombinator.com)
This bug was originally fixed but it's back again: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/436596/preview-automatically-password-protects-pdf-when-saving

macOS, Security, Bugs, PDF, Software

10 points by behnamoh 136 days ago | 0 comments

Chunkr – Vision model based PDF chunking (github.com/lumina-ai-inc)
We're Lumina. We've built a search engine that's 5x more relevant than Google Scholar. You can check us out at lumina.sh. We achieved this by bringing state of the art search technology (the best in dense and sparse vector embeddings) to academic research.

PDF, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Open Source

75 points by redbell 149 days ago | 15 comments

The Origins of PostScript [pdf] (gwern.net)

Computer Science, Programming Languages, History, Printing, PDF

5 points by fanf2 151 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: A pretty decent PDF to CSV converter (mightymerge.io)
Convert PDF to CSV online for free

Tools, Data Conversion, Web Applications, PDF

28 points by jampoole 156 days ago | 5 comments

Toyota Maru (1990) [pdf] (ayuba.fr)

Toyota, Automobiles, History, PDF, Japan

10 points by tosh 175 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs (github.com/seekbytes)