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👉 Don't bury your research data in #PDF files. linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito

💽 Put raw data in data repositories and use open formats to save them and make them reusable. #CSV / TSV are the perfect format for tabulated data.

www.linkedin.com#archives #collections #data #digitalcuration #digitization… | Jon IppolitoCan AI save PDF from itself? Probably not, so stop using PDF to archive your documents. PDFs are not easily accessible, hide their dependencies and security vulnerabilities, and rely on a 700-page spec developed by a proprietary vendor rather than an open standards body. Most importantly, they're a bitch to extract data from. (Have you tried copy-pasting text from a two-column PDF?) Along with bitmapped PDFs that are basically images, there are even searchable PDFs whose creators have accidentally or deliberately mixed up the letters in the font table to make them non-copiable. These failure points are why Arxiv started giving readers the option to read papers in HTML. This sounds like a good job for AI, and in fact Mistral just launched an API for converting PDF to the simple, readable Markdown format. Unfortunately, independent tests have showed poor results https://lnkd.in/eyktiSaa. When you upload a PDF as background for your Custom GPT or NotebookLM podcast, this poor accessibility just compounds potential errors at inference time. But it's a lot worse when a PDF is consulted in a life-or-death situation. Optical LLMs have been caught mismatching column headings and lines of data. Imagine a doctor who uses AI to consult a PDF table of drug protocols and prescribes 500mg of a potentially toxic chemotherapy agent instead of 50mg. Especially in science, the value of information is the ability to re-use it. Yet archivists in the digital era have spent way too much time figuring out how to get data into a repository compared to getting it out. As I've said before, a collection of PDFs isn't an archive; it's a tomb. #Archives #Collections #Data #DigitalCuration #Digitization #DigitalPreservation #AIethics #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM #MachineLearning #OCR

For Follow Friday, here's a list of accounts related to #PDF in the fediverse:
@TeXUsersGroup –info about #TeXLaTeX and the CTAN package registry
@context – news and updates from the group behind ConTeXt
@typst – the makers of #Typst
@libreoffice – the free and open office, which can also be used to create PDFs
@speedata – a PDF engine not yet supported by pandoc
@wtfpdf – “Celebrating the majesty, the mystery, the comedy and the catastrophe of PDFs....mostly the latter two.”

Why I 🧡 the web.

An offline-capable Notepad (also a Progressive Web App) that's been operating for 9 years. 🗒️

👉🏻 Dark mode.
👉🏻 Privacy-focused
👉🏻 Full-screen mode
👉🏻 Supports monospaced and dyslexic #fonts.
👉🏻 Floating window
👉🏻 Download notes as plain text, #PDF, and DOCX.

notepad.js.org/

notepad.js.orgNotepad - Offline capableAn offline capable notepad powered by ServiceWorker. It's quick, distraction-free, dark mode enabled, mobile compatible(Android, iOS) and minimalist in nature.

This is still the wildest thing I have seen done with PDFs. Or more precisely injecting a #PDF into a GIF and then using that to construct a Turing-complete CPU inside an iPhone via zero-click iMessage exploit.🤯

googleprojectzero.blogspot.com

The fact that people have been able to come up with something like this in a pre-LLM era just makes me think what our new AI overlords can envision.😬

googleprojectzero.blogspot.comA deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit w...

Custom design GM session tracker illustrated by yours truly, for use with the Dragonbane #TTRPG. A free fillable PDF to download from The Treasure Box and to use if it suits your taste and needs! It is designed to match my already very popular Dragonbane character shee.

You will find a Swedish, a French and an Italian language version, which are all available with their English counterpart in both Letter and A4 formats!

thevoyagersworkshop.com/produc

#rpg#gmtools#tracker

Myranor 5e Schnellstarter

Myranor ist ein Fantasy-Rollenspiel auf dem gleichnamigen Kontinent auf der Welt Dere, die auch das bekannte Aventurien-Setting des Rollenspiels Das Schwarze Auge beherbergt. Myranor vereint eine antik wirkende Welt mit Sword & Sorcery – Gefühl mit High Fantasy um mächtige Magie und arkane Technik.

Dieser Schnellstarter ist ein Vorgeschmack auf die im Laufe des Jahres 2025 erscheinenden neuen Myranor-Regeln. Diese neue Version von Myranor basiert auf 5e, der 5. Edition des bekanntesten Fantasy-Rollenspiels der Welt.

Enthält:

  • Der Kontinent Myranor
  • Die Regeln. Schnellübersicht der wichtigsten 5e-Regeln
  • Abenteuer “Naggarachs Fluch”. Stufe 1, 3 bis 4 Stunden Spielzeit
  • Spielfertige Charaktere. Inkl. drei neuer Klassen: Optimatiker, Animist, Kundschafter

https://www.dnddeutsch.de/myranor-5e-schnellstarter/

#DD5#Myranor#PatricGötz
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@backpulver

> #Okular (only viewer)

That's not true. It has extensive tools including digital signatures with smartcards, stamps, and annotations that should fully address your needs from my POV

Press F6 for toolbar. Alt-5 adds text and "X" marks in boxes. For frequent items like signatures, use transparent PNGs as custom annotations. Works perfectly for all my document needs! #linux #pdf

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@KalleWirsch

Das sieht echt gut aus 😀

Für mich ist es nichts mehr, da ich seit vielen Jahren mit #Linux und #LibreOffice hinkomme (und das auch kann, weil ich nicht in eine bestehende Infrastruktur eingebunden bin).

Ein Service, der MS-#Office Formate nutzt, wäre für mich eher ein Rückschritt, aber wenn ich in Zukunft mal solche Daten austauschen muss und #PDF nicht dafür reicht, sehe ich es mir wieder an 😄👍🏽

Sulla Forge des communs numériques éducatifs si può testare l'app #PDF2flip che permette di trasformare un #Pdf in un libro sfogliabile (#flipbook): pdf2flip.forge.apps.education.
Un grand merci à @eyssette 👏
Nella descrizione delle immagini la traduzione italiana delle istruzioni. #ALT

Qui un esempio: pdf2flip.forge.apps.education. #BeniComuniDigitali

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