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by ShinyLeftPad 27 days ago
> how "reading PDFs" is not more of a solved problem

This and replies to this are surreal. It's like everyone simultaneously decided to forget that you don't need claude or whatever to read a PDF. The document is literally made for you to read...

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> The document is literally made for you to read...

It’s disingenuous to assume every PDF is actually crafted to communicate to its recipients, even more so to pretend LLM users are in a position to understand all the PDFs they receive

There’s a lot of gray area where help understanding a document is fully reasonable

If you can't understand it how can you be sure that the thing that helps you "understand" it does it right?