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Office workers are spending way too much on AI too (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 2 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Gotta burn ’em all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miTfCnyrpw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260625-office-workers-are-spending-way-too-much-on-ai-too - podcast

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[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

So, anybody know the regular linux commands to turn a pdf into markdown? I assume there is a simple command that does that for you, if there isn't already a pdf2markdown.

[-] flaviat@awful.systems 1 points 2 hours ago

There cannot be such a thing since pdf does not structure its data. There is an extension to the standard that would let a program do it for you but nobody uses it (PDF/UA-1). (also pandoc is vibe coded now)

[-] 0x5f3759df@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

Look into pandoc

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