Stop OCRing Every PDF: Route It First with pdf-inspector
OCR is often the most expensive and slowest step in a document-ingestion pipeline. The frustrating part is that many PDFs already contain usable tex…
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wkhtmltopdf in Docker in 2026: musl, libssl1.1, and the ways out
Disclosure up front: I'm Vitalii, founder of PDFik , a hosted URL/HTML-to-PDF API. It shows up once near the end, clearly marked. The rest of this i…
wkhtmltopdf is archived with an open CVE — a field guide to moving off it
Disclosure up front: I'm Vitalii, founder of PDFik , a hosted URL/HTML-to-PDF API. It appears below as one option among several — including the ones…
A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Abstract: Many modern programming languages include some form of asynchronous programming. In particular, a growing number now have what we call str…
Why Your Self-Hosted Stirling-PDF Container OOMs, Hangs or Returns a Broken PDF: 15 Anti-Patterns and Their Fixes
Stirling-PDF is not an unstable application. Almost every crash, hang and quietly mangled output traces back to one of fifteen decisions you made ou…
Expense Report Fraud Detection: The Altered Receipt PDF Your Controls Never Inspect
Originally published at htpbe.tech . The version on htpbe.tech stays in sync with the latest detection algorithm — refer to it for the canonical tex…
Why editing one word in a PDF is so much harder than it looks
I spent the last few months building a PDF editor. The feature that sounded easiest — change a word, leave everything else alone — turned out to be…
Versioning PNG Snapshots Into a PDF Diff Trail You Can Actually Defend
Build artifacts are easy to blame. When a regression lands at 3 AM and the release manager wants to know what the UI looked like at 4 PM yesterday,…
Making a screenshot PDF searchable — no OCR, because we rendered the page
We archive whole web pages as PDFs. Under the hood each page is a full-height screenshot dropped onto a PDF page — which looks perfect and is comple…
How to Convert PDF to Word in the Browser with Vue 3 and pdf-lib
Converting PDF to Word seems straightforward, but the reality is more complex. PDF stores text as character coordinates, while Word uses structured…
Why Extracting Tables From a PDF Is Harder Than It Looks (and How We Actually Do It)
If you have ever copy-pasted a table out of a PDF, you already know what happens. Rows collapse into one long line of text. Columns interleave. Numb…
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
High-performance GPU programming has traditionally forced a compromise between execution efficiency and memory safety. While Rust guarantees compile…
Tsampi BFT: Leaderless One-Round Voting with Parameterized Finality
Tsampi BFT is a leaderless Byzantine fault-tolerant state-replication protocol with one Vote round per Proposed Block and exact-lineage finality in…
The half of Claude's watermark you can actually check
Sylwia Lask's post on Claude's watermark is the best-natured thing I have read on this topic in a while, and it is right about the two things people…
Ironies of Automation (1983)
This paper discusses the ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator. Some co…
Why Your SVG to PDF Export Rasterizes (and How to Stop It)
Print the SVG to PDF from a browser, or run it through a vector toolchain. Either way, the output can stay fully vector, because SVG and PDF are bot…
Draft vs High: The OCR Quality Parameter Nobody Reads the Docs For
Five different places document PDF4me's OCR quality setting: the REST API and four no-code platforms. Read all five pages back to back and you'll fi…
Converting Traditional Chinese to Simplified in PDFs: Why We Ended Up With a "Combined Approach"
Batch-converting the traditional Chinese characters in a Hong Kong stock interim report to simplified sounds as simple as find-and-replace. Once we…
I Stopped Writing HTML for PDFs — Here's How I Turned a React Component into a PDF API
A few months ago I found myself staring at a 400-line Handlebars template for an invoice, trying to keep it in sync with the same invoice we render…
Pdf to Docx using Pyhton
Here Some Simple Python Script that convert PDF to word using pdf2docx library on python first install library on pip : pip install --user termcolor…
Choosing How to Merge PDF Files: A Practical Engineer's Decision Guide
Combining separate PDF documents into a single file sounds like a trivial operation until you hit your second real-world use case. A one-off persona…
How to Split PDF by File Size in the Browser with Vue 3 and pdf-lib
Splitting a PDF by file size is one of the most practical but technically tricky operations. Unlike splitting by page count (simple math) or bookmar…
PDF Generator Fingerprints: What Software Made This File (And Where It Lies)
Originally published at htpbe.tech . The version on htpbe.tech stays in sync with the latest detection algorithm — refer to it for the canonical tex…