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		jbaiter on Feb 16, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scan... That will not work for scanned PDFs without a text layer and even if it has one, it's not guaranteed to work.

brudgers on Feb 17, 2025 [–]

"Might work" comes with neither express nor implied warranty.

OCR is another thing that might work which is also simpler than an LLM.

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