9h ago · 5 min read · Removing pages from a PDF is a common task — stripping a blank cover page before sending, dropping an appendix, extracting just the pages that matter. Doing it in the browser with pdf-lib requires a f
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2d ago · 5 min read · Converting a PDF to images server-side requires Ghostscript, ImageMagick, or a paid API. In the browser you can do it with PDF.js and Canvas — no server, no upload, no cost. Here's how the PDF to Imag
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6d ago · 4 min read · Extract Structured Data from PDF Invoices Without Training an ML Model Every accounting team, fintech startup, and expense management tool faces the same problem: invoices arrive as PDFs, but your system needs structured data. The traditional approac...
Join discussion6d ago · 7 min read · Rotate a page, remove a blank one, extract a few pages into a separate file — these are everyday PDF tasks that most tools send to a server. In this post I'll walk through how I built a fully client-s
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Mar 31 · 3 min read · Law firms process thousands of contracts per year. Manually reviewing each one for key clauses, dates, and obligations costs hundreds of hours. Here is how modern legal tech automates the first pass. What to Extract from Contracts Essential Data Poin...
Join discussionMar 31 · 3 min read · Bank statement parsing is one of the hardest document extraction challenges. Every bank uses a different format, different column layouts, and different terminology. Here is how fintech companies solve it. Why Bank Statements Are Hard Unlike invoices...
Join discussionMar 30 · 2 min read · Every company processes documents. Invoices, contracts, receipts, reports — the paperwork never stops. The question is whether to build your own document parsing system or use an API. This guide breaks down the build-vs-buy decision for PDF data extr...
Join discussionMar 26 · 4 min read · html-pdf npm is Abandoned: Here's the Modern Alternative If you're using the html-pdf npm package, you probably already know it's broken. It hasn't been maintained since 2019. It fails on Node 18+. It's built on PhantomJS, which is also abandoned. An...
Join discussionMar 25 · 3 min read · Every AI workflow eventually hits the same wall: "I need to read this PDF." The document processing MCP ecosystem has responded with 15+ servers, from Microsoft's 90,700-star universal converter to single-purpose PDF extractors built for speed. The h...
Join discussionMar 24 · 7 min read · Removing White Backgrounds from PDFs: Building a PDF to Transparent PNG Tool with PDF.js and Canvas PDF files do not support transparency. Every PDF renderer — browsers, Acrobat, Preview — paints cont
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