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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: 0.208s | 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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1. nitwit005 ◴[06 Feb 25 08:39 UTC] No.42960357[source]▶
People kind of dump whatever in pdf files, so I don't think a cleaner file format would do as much as you might think.

Digital fax services will generate pdf files, for example. They're just image data dumped into a pdf. Various scanners will also do so.