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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 + geometryWorker + lattice + visualGridMapper, what makes this any different from any other extraction approach
May 15, 202613 min read1
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 exactly what I mean. You run the PDF through a generic text extractor, and instead of a clean table, y
May 13, 20265 min read2
Cleaning Broken HTML Tables from PDFs, Scrapes, and Legacy Exports in Vanilla JS
javascript, webdev, html, opensource
Apr 10, 20268 min read5