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Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

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1303 points serjester | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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twelve40 ◴[05 Feb 25 23:11 UTC] No.42956704[source]▶
Isn't it amazing how one company invented a universally spread format that takes structured data from an editor (except images obviously) and converts it into a completely fucked-up unstructured form that then requires expensive voodoo magic to convert back into structured data.
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sconeguy ◴[05 Feb 25 23:27 UTC] No.42956861[source]▶
What would it have taken to store the plain text in some meta field in the document. Argh, so annoying.
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1. groby_b ◴[06 Feb 25 01:04 UTC] No.42957655[source]▶
PDF supports that just fine. It's just that many PDF publishers choose not to use that.

You can lead a horse to water...