Open source Adobe Acrobat alternatives

MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

“Though it promises to convert everything to Markdown, it seems to be a worse version of what the already existing tools such as PDFtotext, docx2txt, pptx2md, ... collected [here] do without even pretending to export to Markdown. Looking at its [source], it indeed seems to be a…”

MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

“MarkItDown feels like running strings; the output is great for text extraction and processing, not for reading by humans”

[Bug]: Installation freezes Windows 10

“### Installation Method Local Installation ### The Problem I tried to install `Stirling-PDF-win-installer.exe` (v0.36.3 on Windows 10) for the first time. Installation freezes at 90%. The popup displays the message: > Initializing Stirling-PDF > Stirling-PDF > Finalising…”

Show HN: LLM-aided OCR – Correcting Tesseract OCR errors with LLMs

“Oh hey! (This might be the first time I've been paged on HN) I'm extremely excited by real, non-hype reasons to use LLMs, and I've also been frustrated that OCR isn't 100% accurate... I currently use Tesseract OCR in the context of UI automation of mobile apps. UI automation is…”

Docling and llm granite-docling 258m (RockMan256) with LM Studio-0.4.20

“### Bug Malheureusement, je ne suis pas en mesure de créer des issues GitHub directement. Mais voici une description de ticket prête à copier-coller pour ouvrir une issue sur le repo [docling]( : *** **Titre :** `AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'info'` during…”

Identify table of contents for better chunking Hierarchy Identification

“Question I am working on a custom chunking method where I need to identify headings, subheadings, and child headings separately. Here's the detailed explanation: Current Issue: I am using Docling to tag headings in a PDF. Currently, all nested headings (subheadings and child…”

OpenDataLoader-PDF: An open source tool for structured PDF parsing

“Just finished migrating to it to replace pdf2docx in a new project I’ve been working on and it is so much better. Thanks for open sourcing OpenDataLoader-PDF!”

Attempted import error: 'create' is not exported from 'fontkit' (imported as 'fontkit').

“After the upgradation, we are getting the below error in local and while deploying the code. Please help here. ![image]( Current version in our machine : @react-pdf/renderer": "^2.0.16" @diegomura Please help check ASAP.”

Incompatible with Webpack 5 due to Buffer dependency

“Webpack 5 removes Buffer (see effectively breaking this library since it has explicit usages of it in the code.”

F-Droid build failed

“A jar file is added to the source code. Is it available from a maven repo?”

Proprietary components added with latest release: blockers for F-Droid

“Quoting the release notes of 2.3.0: > Added Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics which also can be disabled This will disable updates for your app at F-Droid (where proprietary components are not allowed). For your listing in my repo, the same applies now: ``` Offending libs:…”

📚 Recomendação do livro • - Autor

“## Categoria ### O que esse livro tem a agregar? * O livro oferece um guia prático para quem deseja trabalhar remotamente como programador e conquistar a liberdade geográfica. Ele aborda como transitar para o trabalho remoto, manter a produtividade, encontrar clientes e…”

Memory leak route "POST /forms/chromium/convert/url"

“# Appreciation We are running Gotenberg in production. A lot of appreciation from our team for this wonderful project enabling many URL->PDF conversions per day for our endusers. # Context We are running it on AWS FARGATE with the following configuration: ``` { "cpu": 0,…”

Synology: LibreOffice struggles to start (Paperless-ngx 2.20.3 + Gotenberg 8.25.1 + PostgreSQL 17 or 18)

“Happy New Year! Hello, I am encountering a problem from Gotenberg version 7.10.0 (same problem with versions 8.0.1 - 7.10.0 - 7.10.1 - 7.10.2) For example, when converting .xlsx or .pptx files, I often get the following error message: file.xlsx: Error occurred while consuming…”

[RFC] Rust Processing Module - High-Performance PDF Text Extraction

“# [RFC] Rust Processing Module - High-Performance PDF Text Extraction ## Proposal Summary Build a **Rust processing module** for LiteParse to provide high-performance PDF text extraction with spatial layout reconstruction, maintaining full compatibility with the existing…”

C# wrapping WASM LiteParse : upstream bug in @llamaindex/[email protected]: any parse that actually triggers OCR pani

“### Description I build a C# wrapper around the WASM Liteparse package in order to inegrate the native .Net Tesseract Package. Eversthing works fine, except: Confirmed upstream bug in @llamaindex/[email protected]: any parse that actually triggers OCR (custom ocrEngine or not…”

Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript

“pdfmake was not meant to be a LaTeX replacement If you want to print a book or a perfectly aligned article do it in LaTeX If you have a web-application however and it prints invoices or other documents pdfmake can be a good choice and an efficient solution People don't want to…”

Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript

“I used PDFMake on a recent project and was very pleased. One issue we ran into in browser was the huge size overhead from vfs_fonts - is there a preferred workaround to this issue (we had to serve it separately from the rest of the app), or any solution in the pipeline?”

Report one bug: garbled text will be generated if you using pdf.

“At first, I used the PPTX format to generate, and it looked fine, then I switched to the PPTX format. HTML looks fine, but the PDF looks like garbled text on almost every page. These are all done in the same context.”

SKILL.md references missing assets/client-logo.svg — breaks hermes skills install

“**Describe the bug** `SKILL.md` (line 182) includes `assets/client-logo.svg` in the "Materials status block" example output, but the file does not exist in the repo. The only SVG present is `assets/images/logo.svg`. **Impact** This breaks installation via agent skill managers…”

command not found issue

“Hi I just tried the command line: curl " > background-checks.pdf then: pdfplumber background-checks.csv ![Screen Shot 2020-09-14 at 11 59 19 AM]( but i got the "command not found: pdfplumber" while I already install the pdfplumber please see the attachment..”

Incorrect extraction in tables with overlapping columns

“This is a continuation of a discussion posted [here]( please check for more info. ## Describe the bug When the pdf has overlapping columns (i.e the columns do not wrap text), all extraction methods (extract_tables, extract_text, extract_words) give incorrect result. - When using…”

PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js.

“I recently switched to using this for a web app from Prawn. The main app is in Ruby, but this was so much nicer (simpler API, much, much faster PDF generation) than Prawn for our particular use case (PDFs with lots of exact positioning of text and images) that I actually set up…”

Right-to-Left (RTL) support for Hebrew and Arabic

“Please add Right-to-Left (RTL) support for languages like Hebrew and Arabic... Something like: ``` javascript doc.rtl(true); doc.text('...', {rtl: true}); ```”

Tests should pass on Windows

“I've open a branch dedicated for tests on Windows: [`travis-windows`]( Thanks to the amazing work of @Tontyna for #587, only 3 tests don't pass: - [Acid2]( - [Flex column wrap reverse]( - [Condensed fonts]( The third one is easy to understand: the fonts included in this Windows…”

WeasyPrint announcements

“Hello! As you may have noticed, there was some activity on the repo. But no release. Some "the project is no longer maintained by Kozea". But who? So today is answer-day! Like it has sometimes been said, a new organization maintains this project: CourtBouillon. CourtBouillon is…”

Pdfcpu: A Go PDF Processor

“Strong endorsement. I’m fine with pdftk except for rotating pages: it seems to be using annotations vs actually rotating the image in the pdf. I’m using some odd software that chooses to ignore these annotations and so even though I fixed the page orientation with pdftk in the…”

Pdfcpu: A Go PDF Processor

“Thank you for saying that, pdftk has been a wonderful tool for me over the years, but if pdfcpu can replace it and thus rid me of my final Java dependency it would be wonderful.”

Is the author of pdf-lib okay?

“If one needs to work with pdf in a JS environment one will sooner or later cross paths with pdf-lib. I noticed the last release was almost 5 years ago and the maintainers git contributions stopped at the same time. There is a second github account under the same name but the…”

Is the author of pdf-lib okay?

“Last account activity was 2024-07-08 to push changes to the personal website andrewjdillon.com.[1][2] Last account activity to contribute to any to any repository was 2021-11-28 to comment on the hopding/pdf-lib repository.[2] It's clearly now an unmaintained repository with 4+…”