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Most PDF Extractors Use the Wrong API: Here’s What We Built Instead
Dev.to · Bonzai2Carn 19h ago
Most PDF Extractors Use the Wrong API: Here’s What We Built Instead
TLDR: PDF.js exposes three data sources at three fidelity levels. The industry default is the one...
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Why Splitting a 2,500-Line File Broke Our Architecture
Dev.to · Bonzai2Carn 3d ago
Why Splitting a 2,500-Line File Broke Our Architecture
TLDR A single 2500-line index.html with all JS inline worked. Splitting it into...
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Stop Parsing PDFs at Render Time: A Better Architecture for Structured Extraction
Dev.to · Bonzai2Carn 1w ago
Stop Parsing PDFs at Render Time: A Better Architecture for Structured Extraction
TLDR: The reason most frontend PDF extraction is wrong is that developers try to infer document...
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The Empty Quadrant: Mapping the Design Space of Frontend PDF Extraction
Dev.to · Bonzai2Carn 1mo ago
The Empty Quadrant: Mapping the Design Space of Frontend PDF Extraction
A user asked me a sharp question yesterday: Looking at your extraction pipeline, pdfjs +...
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How to Stop PDF Parsers from Hallucinating Tables out of Thin Air
Dev.to · Bonzai2Carn 1mo ago
How to Stop PDF Parsers from Hallucinating Tables out of Thin Air
PDF extraction is usually blind. If you've ever tried to write a script to scrape a PDF, you know...
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Cleaning Broken HTML Tables from PDFs, Scrapes, and Legacy Exports in Vanilla JS
Dev.to · Bonzai2Carn 2mo ago
Cleaning Broken HTML Tables from PDFs, Scrapes, and Legacy Exports in Vanilla JS
HTML tables are liars. If you haven't worked deeply with HTML tables, you might think a table is...
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