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90s_dev ◴[] No.43975996[source]
Have any of you ever thought to yourself, this is new and interesting, and then vaguely remembered that you spent months or years becoming an expert at it earlier in life but entirely forgot it? And in fact large chunks of the very interesting things you've done just completely flew out of your mind long ago, to the point where you feel absolutely new at life, like you've accomplished relatively nothing, until something like this jars you out of that forgetfulness?

I definitely vaguely remember doing some incredibly cool things with PDFs and OCR about 6 or 7 years ago. Some project comes to mind... google tells me it was "tesseract" and that sounds familiar.

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hallman76 ◴[] No.43980118[source]
We will never get back the collective man-decades of time that has been burned by this format. When will the madness stop?
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1. xvilka ◴[] No.43980692[source]
The solution always has been in plain sight - just make XML-based format. Nobody liked it, except OpenDocument and eventually Microsoft. Though these formats serve different purpose, new, similar one, could be created with picture-perfect features.