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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster. A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 113 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Look, if you know a way to convert a PDF to text with less than 500GB of VRAM and 2000W of power used for twenty seconds, I'm all ears.

[–] uszo165@futurology.today 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Runs on anything that runs Linux:

NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03)

SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] PDF-file [text-file]

DESCRIPTION
       Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.

       Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.  If text-file is not speci‐
       fied,  pdftotext  converts file.pdf to file.txt.  If text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout.  If
       PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.
[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Foes it works on scanned image PDF?

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