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PDF Support and Alternatives

Users question the effectiveness of the featured application's PDF support, express desires for better PDF handling or equivalents, and recommend or seek PDF-specific tools for similar functionality.

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Sample Comments

kube-system • Apr 5, 2021 • View on HN

It's not going to do much for a PDF :)

remram • Oct 29, 2023 • View on HN

I don't think PDF can do that.

ricardobeat • Jul 4, 2011 • View on HN

PDF kind of already does that. I haven't tried the app though, might have better performance.

gpm • Aug 27, 2020 • View on HN

It claims to support PDFs, does that not work well for some reason?

raybb • Jan 18, 2023 • View on HN

Is there something like this but for pdfs?

dunefox • Jun 16, 2020 • View on HN

How well does the conversion work for arbitrary pdf files?

raybb • Jan 5, 2023 • View on HN

Is there something like this but for PDFs?

earlyriser • Mar 4, 2014 • View on HN

I would like this for PDFs. Do you know an app that can handle that?

baby • Aug 26, 2015 • View on HN

for that kind of pdf I'm sure it works fine, for more complex pdf I'm not sure...

throwaw33333434 • Nov 16, 2023 • View on HN

is it any good for pdfs that are NOT images?