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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (3 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.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m…but…no…wait….

We’re not going to make it.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No, we aren't.

[–] uszo165@futurology.today 22 points 1 week ago (4 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.
[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ai agents use tools like this tho?

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I was suprised when chatgpt used ffmpeg and yt-dlp to check a frame of a video idk if it actually suceeded or lied

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Upvoted for the sheer mic drop moment. Well done.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I hope this is sarcasm >_<

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Foes it works on scanned image PDF?

[–] Dpek@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Is that a new fringe edge compute mixture of experts from Antro-GPTx? Sounds gemini-flipiti-rad!