On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM Philip Rhoades via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> People, > > I have made use of CUPS to print to PDF files for a looong time . . I > couldn't find anything that suggests anyone has been working on > providing the same facility for printing to MarkDown files - anyone know > of anything? > > I have been increasingly making use of MD files as a convenient format > and it would be very nice to have the choice of MD as well as PDF when > printing stuff . . manually converting PDF to MD is a bit of a pain . . > Markdown is based on the logical structure of the document as chapters, sections, etc. PDF just describes low level appearance: placement and size of glyphs, so loses the original logical structure. Reversing that simplification can't be done in a general way, as it would require details of how the logical elements should be rendered. There are many AI projects to generate markdown or LaTeX from PDF-->OCR--><desired format> <https://website.mathpix.com/> < https://dev.to/harsha_sahu_45ed53c4c12/vision-parse-transform-scanned-pdfs-into-perfect-markdown-with-ai-magic-4920 > -- George N. White III
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