On Jan 17, 2025, at 11:10 AM, Noam Preil <n...@pixelhero.dev> wrote: > > It's in the pdffs repo. Started working on it again a few months ago, but > my laptop broke; just got a 9 system set up on a pinebook using > QEMU+KVM, I'm more than happy to guide through it and assist with > debugging if needed :) > > https://shithub.us/sigrid/pdffs/HEAD/info.html is the canonical repo, > though there's a regression I fixed on > https://git.sr.ht/~pixelherodev/pdffs > > I fixed up the patch to push it upstream, but forgot to do so; it's on > my list for today. > > You'll need to install that `pdffs` tool, though currently it's a CLI > and not a fs, as pdf infra is more important than tacking on the 9p > interface; there's a pdf2txt script in the repo that dumps the text from > a pdf; pdfpages.rc will, additionally, do that conversion _per page_, > and then print out each page number which includes the relevant text. > > If there's any other questions or anything else you need help with, > lemme know!
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