📅 2026-07-12 👤 Alina T. ⏱ 9 min read 📂 How-to Printed OCR is almost solved. Handwriting is still an open research problem, but today’s tools get you 85% of the way for most hands. Why handwriting is hard Printed characters live on a grid; handwriting slopes, loops and overlaps. Modern HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) […]
Read article → 📅 2026-09-28 👤 Alina T. ⏱ 12 min read 📂 Guides Converting a PDF to Word sounds simple, until you try to do it with a 400-page legal brief that mixes scanned pages, embedded fonts, columns and complex tables. This guide walks through the technology that makes modern conversion work, when it fails, and how […]
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📅 2026-06-02 👤 Daniel Lee ⏱ 11 min read 📂 Reference Treat PDF as one blob and you’ll hit edge cases forever. Learn the family tree and most mysteries disappear. PDF the format vs. PDF the standards The core PDF specification evolved from version 1.0 (1993) to the current ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0). On top […]
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📅 2026-08-03 👤 Daniel Lee ⏱ 14 min read 📂 Engineering If you process more than 100 PDFs a day, you need a pipeline, not a UI. Here is a reference architecture that scales from 1 to 1 000 000. The three laws of batch Everything that can fail will fail. Network drops, 503s, out-of-memory errors. Build […]
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📅 2026-08-21 👤 Alina T. ⏱ 13 min read 📂 Accessibility One in six people uses assistive technology to read documents. PDF/UA is the standard that lets screen readers follow a PDF the way an eye does — but you have to meet it on purpose. Why accessibility is non-negotiable Beyond the human reasons, courts […]
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