Some devs write PDFs.
Others generate them from AI prompts — fully offline, entirely in Java.

Here’s how with Quarkus, LangChain4j, Ollama, and iText:
https://myfear.substack.com/p/ai-whitepaper-generator-quarkus-langchain4j-itext

Microsoft Lens: Aus für mobilen PDF-Scanner

Die Lens-App von Microsoft für Android und iOS stellt der Hersteller in Kürze ein. Die Funktion wandert in den MS365-Copilot.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-Lens-Aus-fuer-mobilen-PDF-Scanner-10516178.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text: https://github.com/denizsafak/abogen
#linux #update #release #foss #abogen #epub #pdf #audiobook #generation #tts

New #blog post: Desperately Seeking Preview.app

https://rldane.space/desperately-seeking-previewapp.html

361 words

Kind of a follow-up to yesterday's blost, but also informative for those who work with PDFs in Linux.

Thanks to https://infinitemac.org for enabling me to get the screenshot of Preview.app on NeXTStep 1.0. So awesome!!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

P.S., I really hope someone gets the 1980s movie reference. Even though I've never seen said movie.

P.P.S., @scruss informs me that Firefox's built-in PDF viewer can do (almost) all of the annotation things I've been trying to do with multiple apps. I'm kinda shook!

#100DaysToOffload #50 #FIFTY! #HalfwayThere

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Macintosh #NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing (a little) #InfiniteMac #PreviewApp #PDF #PDFs #Linux

Tip of the day: Perhaps you have a selection of images that you would like to convert into a single #PDF. In #DEVONthink, there is a simple tool that does just that. Here is, how it works. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240528-merge-images-to-pdf

Un outil en ligne de commande pour chercher du texte à l'intérieur des PDFs.

pdfgrep
https://pdfgrep.org/

Je continue la série des outils de manipulation PDF en ligne avec celui-ci qui permet de générer des livrets PDF (en A5).

Signature PDF - Signer et manipuler des PDF en ligne librement
https://pdf.24eme.fr/

Un outil de conversion et manipulation de fichiers PDF dans le navigateur, sans aucun stockage côté serveur, sans limitations de taille, …
À l'image de DigiPDF : https://digipdf.app/?lang=fr_FR (en un peu moins complet).
Sous le coude.

LuxPDF | An Open-source, Free, Privacy-focused, alternative to other PDF WebApps.
https://luxpdf.com/

One File, Six Formats: Just Change The Extension - Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything posi... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/one-file-six-formats-just-change-the-extension/ #softwarehacks #fileformats #fileformat #mp4 #pdf #png

So you want to parse a #PDF?

https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref

LibreOffice 25.8: Ein letztes Mal für macOS 10.15

LibreOffice räumt auf: Windows 7, 8 und 8.1 erhalten die freie Office-Suite nicht mehr, für macOS 10.15 ist es Version 25.8 die letzte.

https://www.heise.de/news/LibreOffice-25-8-Ein-letztes-Mal-fuer-macOS-10-15-10513335.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Avete uno o mille PDF e in tutti ci sono uno o più livelli e oggetti che bisogna rimuovere. Una soluzione possibile è usare Inkscape, ma da terminale. In questo post racconto come, grazie a un piccolo script, siamo riusciti a portare a termine un’operazione che altrimenti avrebbe richiesto un sacco di tempo.

@linux

#linux #inkscape #terminal #pdf

https://www.aldolat.it/posts/2025/rimuovere-oggetti-pdf-inkscape-terminale/

Un outil de conversion et transformation de PDF directement dans le navigateur mais sans envoyer vos fichiers côté serveur, tout reste strictement dans le navigateur.

https://luxpdf.com/

In #Manjaro #Linux, i can't conveniently #print to #PDF file, by default!

What am i supposed to do?

I know, cups-pdf exists - there's no systemd unit file /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf!

For sake, how cumbersome is that! (compared to #Ubuntu)

..printing from #thunderbird, only gives me my physical printer
..choosing "print using the system dialogue" lets me choose the virtual PDF printer

Tip of the day: If you have a need to watermark or put identifying information on #PDFs or images, the Pro and Server editions of #DEVONthink can do this for you. It’s called imprinting and we show you how you set up and use it. #paperless #pdf #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday #workflow https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/202040709-imprint-documents

hmmm... Connaissez-vous un lecteur de fichiers #epub et #pdf pour terminaux Android (smartphone et liseuse) qui permette de sauvegarder les citations sur un cloud autre que #GoogleDrive ?

L'idéal serait de pouvoir utiliser un accès #webDAV à mon espace chez #Infomaniak (où j'ai déjà un dossier "Livres numériques" rempli de fichiers). Ou au moins un cloud indépendant, qui puisse synchroniser entre au moins deux appareils et exporter les citations au format texte simple...

The Big Reveal is finally here!

Chapters 35 and 36 of "A New Faith" are up on the website at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith

Parts 1 and 2 are available to #download (or read online) for #free in #DRMfree #PDF and #EPUB formats

#solarpunk #hopepunk #bookstodon #novel #climatechange #adaptation #migration #mystery
#thriller #amwriting #WritersCoffeeClub
#WordWeavers #ScribesAndMakers
#PennedPossibilities #writingcommunity #sciencefiction
#climatefiction

In-Network Leaderless Replication for Distributed Data Stores https://lobste.rs/s/l82tbf #pdf #distributed #networking
https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p1337-lee.pdf

Tip of the day: The Content inspectors in #DEVONthink 4 are especially useful for #PDFs, as they provide an overview of the document. You get a table of contents and thumbnails of the document’s pages. With #DEVONthink 4, you can also customize a #PDF’s outline. #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20250520-devonthink-pdf-content-inspectors