A little experiment I’ve done:
wget -i papers.txt
for file in *.pdf; do pdftotext #$FILE "${file%.pdf}.txt"; done
grep -l -e ChatGPT -e Claude -e Astra -e Gemini -e OpenAI -e Anthropic *.txt | wc -l
The output:
1358
I have no further questions, your honour.
wget -i papers.txt
for file in *.pdf; do pdftotext #$FILE "${file%.pdf}.txt"; done
grep -l -e ChatGPT -e Claude -e Astra -e Gemini -e OpenAI -e Anthropic *.txt | wc -l
The output:
1358
I have no further questions, your honour.
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November 3, 2026 at 9:21 PM
A little experiment I’ve done:
wget -i papers.txt
for file in *.pdf; do pdftotext #$FILE "${file%.pdf}.txt"; done
grep -l -e ChatGPT -e Claude -e Astra -e Gemini -e OpenAI -e Anthropic *.txt | wc -l
The output:
1358
I have no further questions, your honour.
wget -i papers.txt
for file in *.pdf; do pdftotext #$FILE "${file%.pdf}.txt"; done
grep -l -e ChatGPT -e Claude -e Astra -e Gemini -e OpenAI -e Anthropic *.txt | wc -l
The output:
1358
I have no further questions, your honour.
Try "pdftotext" to examine the raw textualization of the content; I bet that's what it's checking, and it might not align with the visible PDF the way one would hope
November 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Try "pdftotext" to examine the raw textualization of the content; I bet that's what it's checking, and it might not align with the visible PDF the way one would hope
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🌙 今夜のもう 1 本
「OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順」(Zenn (Claude topic))
マニュアル記載と推測を切り分ける出典表記の型。PLC業務でClaudeの回答を検証可能にする手順。
気になった方はぜひ。
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https://hiroba.kojihq.com/articles/omron-manual-lookup-skill-citation
「OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順」(Zenn (Claude topic))
マニュアル記載と推測を切り分ける出典表記の型。PLC業務でClaudeの回答を検証可能にする手順。
気になった方はぜひ。
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https://hiroba.kojihq.com/articles/omron-manual-lookup-skill-citation
OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順
FHマクロやNXの仕様回答で、マニュアル記載と一般知識による補完を区別するための自作スキル omron-manual-lookup の解説。手元PDF→公式サイトの探索順、pdftotext と grep による該当箇所の抽出、印刷ページ番号での出典表記、未記載部分の「マニュアル未確認」明示などの手順を整理。Claude を FA・PLC 業務に使う技術者向け。
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October 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
🌙 今夜のもう 1 本
「OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順」(Zenn (Claude topic))
マニュアル記載と推測を切り分ける出典表記の型。PLC業務でClaudeの回答を検証可能にする手順。
気になった方はぜひ。
#Claude #ClaudeCode
https://hiroba.kojihq.com/articles/omron-manual-lookup-skill-citation
「OMRONマニュアルをClaude Desktopに引かせる——資料番号・節・ページを添えて答えさせる参照手順」(Zenn (Claude topic))
マニュアル記載と推測を切り分ける出典表記の型。PLC業務でClaudeの回答を検証可能にする手順。
気になった方はぜひ。
#Claude #ClaudeCode
https://hiroba.kojihq.com/articles/omron-manual-lookup-skill-citation
it (experimentally) works with pdfs too
it decomposes the pdf into text & images (including rendering diagrams to images) using poppler tools (pdftotext etc.)
the qwen model is multimodal so you can input images & get those images considered in the summary
it decomposes the pdf into text & images (including rendering diagrams to images) using poppler tools (pdftotext etc.)
the qwen model is multimodal so you can input images & get those images considered in the summary
October 14, 2026 at 10:03 PM
it (experimentally) works with pdfs too
it decomposes the pdf into text & images (including rendering diagrams to images) using poppler tools (pdftotext etc.)
the qwen model is multimodal so you can input images & get those images considered in the summary
it decomposes the pdf into text & images (including rendering diagrams to images) using poppler tools (pdftotext etc.)
the qwen model is multimodal so you can input images & get those images considered in the summary
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October 15, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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(I know you're probably searching online, but I couldn't help myself)
for file in /path/to/files/*.pdf; do match=$(pdftotext "$file" - | grep "Plainti[(ff)|(ff)]"); if [[ -n "$match" ]]; then echo "$file"; echo "$match"; fi; done
for file in /path/to/files/*.pdf; do match=$(pdftotext "$file" - | grep "Plainti[(ff)|(ff)]"); if [[ -n "$match" ]]; then echo "$file"; echo "$match"; fi; done
October 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
(I know you're probably searching online, but I couldn't help myself)
for file in /path/to/files/*.pdf; do match=$(pdftotext "$file" - | grep "Plainti[(ff)|(ff)]"); if [[ -n "$match" ]]; then echo "$file"; echo "$match"; fi; done
for file in /path/to/files/*.pdf; do match=$(pdftotext "$file" - | grep "Plainti[(ff)|(ff)]"); if [[ -n "$match" ]]; then echo "$file"; echo "$match"; fi; done
GitHub – lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub
On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub. It has an overhauled pdftotext…
On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub. It has an overhauled pdftotext…
GitHub – lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub
On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub. It has an overhauled pdftotext that adds OCR to the regular poppler version. This is useful when you cannot remove DRM or password from a PDF and regular poppler…
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October 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
GitHub – lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub
On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub. It has an overhauled pdftotext…
On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub - lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub. It has an overhauled pdftotext…
Tu CV en LaTeX se ve perfecto. Extrae el texto con pdftotext: si pone «Perl» donde escribiste «Perfil», o «ocial» en vez de «oficial», eso es lo que lee el portal de empleo. Pega el texto en el comprobador gratuito y lo ves en un segundo.
https://getreadystack.com/es/tools/plantilla-cv-latex
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October 2, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Tu CV en LaTeX se ve perfecto. Extrae el texto con pdftotext: si pone «Perl» donde escribiste «Perfil», o «ocial» en vez de «oficial», eso es lo que lee el portal de empleo. Pega el texto en el comprobador gratuito y lo ves en un segundo.
https://getreadystack.com/es/tools/plantilla-cv-latex
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PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) is worth a look too, free and gives you a full tag tree instead of eyeballing it in a browser. poppler's pdftotext -layout is handy for a quick sanity check on reading order.
September 25, 2026 at 1:36 PM
PAC (PDF Accessibility Checker) is worth a look too, free and gives you a full tag tree instead of eyeballing it in a browser. poppler's pdftotext -layout is handy for a quick sanity check on reading order.
I've been using gemma4 31b for document summarization and find it pretty good for that. (I use it via goose as the harness and give it a suite of PDF CLI tools like pdftotext.)
September 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
I've been using gemma4 31b for document summarization and find it pretty good for that. (I use it via goose as the harness and give it a suite of PDF CLI tools like pdftotext.)
These systems typically rely on backend text extraction libraries, most notably pdftotext (part of the Poppler open-source suite) or Apache Tika.
September 17, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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September 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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there's a redline version, but yeah, it's not something that anyone can just whip through. I do use pdftotext for conversion but diffing involves normalizing the text first and it's messy.
August 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
there's a redline version, but yeah, it's not something that anyone can just whip through. I do use pdftotext for conversion but diffing involves normalizing the text first and it's messy.
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pdftotext is freaking awesome!!!!! Just saved hours a week breaking apart PDF to log ingesting. pdftotext takes minutes to get PDF logs ready!!!!!!!!
pdftotext is freaking awesome!!!!! Just saved hours a week breaking apart PDF to log ingesting. pdftotext takes minutes to get PDF logs ready!!!!!!!!
August 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
One of the things I greatly lament is not learning PowerShell scripting when I started this road decades ago!
pdftotext is freaking awesome!!!!! Just saved hours a week breaking apart PDF to log ingesting. pdftotext takes minutes to get PDF logs ready!!!!!!!!
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November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Clarity|Reproducibility|Control
📂 github.com/eddsosa/image2text
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@dcz @pandoc Sorry, missed that. You could try pdftotext from poppler-utils https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.en.html or pdf2text from pdfminer https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer
pdftotext(1) — poppler-utils — Debian stretch — Debian Manpages
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September 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
@dcz @pandoc Sorry, missed that. You could try pdftotext from poppler-utils https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/poppler-utils/pdftotext.1.en.html or pdf2text from pdfminer https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer
Useful #linux commands for working with PDF files in command line:
ocrmypdf - OCR text
pdftotext - extract text
pdfimages - extract images
exiftool - extract metadata
pdfgrep - search matches with keyword/regular expression
pdfunite - merge PDFs in one file (for quick view)
ocrmypdf - OCR text
pdftotext - extract text
pdfimages - extract images
exiftool - extract metadata
pdfgrep - search matches with keyword/regular expression
pdfunite - merge PDFs in one file (for quick view)
February 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Useful #linux commands for working with PDF files in command line:
ocrmypdf - OCR text
pdftotext - extract text
pdfimages - extract images
exiftool - extract metadata
pdfgrep - search matches with keyword/regular expression
pdfunite - merge PDFs in one file (for quick view)
ocrmypdf - OCR text
pdftotext - extract text
pdfimages - extract images
exiftool - extract metadata
pdfgrep - search matches with keyword/regular expression
pdfunite - merge PDFs in one file (for quick view)
GitHub Copilot に PDF の中身のテキストを抽出してと言ったら普通に pdftotext コマンドを呼び出しやがったw まぁ，いいけども。
抽出テキストを Markdown に整形させたら綺麗にできたので，よしとしよう
抽出テキストを Markdown に整形させたら綺麗にできたので，よしとしよう
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
GitHub Copilot に PDF の中身のテキストを抽出してと言ったら普通に pdftotext コマンドを呼び出しやがったw まぁ，いいけども。
抽出テキストを Markdown に整形させたら綺麗にできたので，よしとしよう
抽出テキストを Markdown に整形させたら綺麗にできたので，よしとしよう