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Halison Junior Lunardi

Hello #Blind and #VisuallyImpaired community! 👋
I'm having trouble signing PDF documents with a digital certificate using my #screenreader (NVDA on Windows). I can do it in Adobe Reader but it's quite cumbersome and requires sighted assistance.
Does anyone have a more accessible workflow or software recommendation for signing PDFs with a digital certificate using the keyboard and a screen reader? Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!
Could you please #Boost this so it reaches more people? Thank you in advance! 🙏 #Accessibility #NVDA #PDF #DigitalSignature #AssistiveTechnology @NVAccess

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Mina

Today, I got an email from my lawyer, and for the first time ever, it was just an email, not an "please read the attched #pdf".

Can people actually learn?

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Science ouverte UnivRennes

👉 Don't bury your research data in #PDF files. linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito

💽 Put raw data in data repositories and use open formats to save them and make them reusable. #CSV / TSV are the perfect format for tabulated data.

www.linkedin.com#archives #collections #data #digitalcuration #digitization… | Jon Ippolito | 30 commentsCan AI save PDF from itself? Probably not, so stop using PDF to archive your documents. PDFs are not easily accessible, hide their dependencies and security vulnerabilities, and rely on a 700-page spec developed by a proprietary vendor rather than an open standards body. Most importantly, they're a bitch to extract data from. (Have you tried copy-pasting text from a two-column PDF?) Along with bitmapped PDFs that are basically images, there are even searchable PDFs whose creators have accidentally or deliberately mixed up the letters in the font table to make them non-copiable. These failure points are why Arxiv started giving readers the option to read papers in HTML. This sounds like a good job for AI, and in fact Mistral just launched an API for converting PDF to the simple, readable Markdown format. Unfortunately, independent tests have showed poor results https://lnkd.in/eyktiSaa. When you upload a PDF as background for your Custom GPT or NotebookLM podcast, this poor accessibility just compounds potential errors at inference time. But it's a lot worse when a PDF is consulted in a life-or-death situation. Optical LLMs have been caught mismatching column headings and lines of data. Imagine a doctor who uses AI to consult a PDF table of drug protocols and prescribes 500mg of a potentially toxic chemotherapy agent instead of 50mg. Especially in science, the value of information is the ability to re-use it. Yet archivists in the digital era have spent way too much time figuring out how to get data into a repository compared to getting it out. As I've said before, a collection of PDFs isn't an archive; it's a tomb. #Archives #Collections #Data #DigitalCuration #Digitization #DigitalPreservation #AIethics #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM #MachineLearning #OCR | 30 comments on LinkedIn
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David Bisset

Why I 🧡 the web.

An offline-capable Notepad (also a Progressive Web App) that's been operating for 9 years. 🗒️

👉🏻 Dark mode.
👉🏻 Privacy-focused
👉🏻 Full-screen mode
👉🏻 Supports monospaced and dyslexic #fonts.
👉🏻 Floating window
👉🏻 Download notes as plain text, #PDF, and DOCX.

notepad.js.org/

notepad.js.orgNotepad - Offline capableAn offline capable notepad powered by ServiceWorker. It's quick, distraction-free, dark mode enabled, mobile compatible(Android, iOS) and minimalist in nature.
#webtools
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The Voyager's Workshop

Custom design GM session tracker illustrated by yours truly, for use with the Dragonbane #TTRPG. A free fillable PDF to download from The Treasure Box and to use if it suits your taste and needs! It is designed to match my already very popular Dragonbane character shee.

You will find a Swedish, a French and an Italian language version, which are all available with their English counterpart in both Letter and A4 formats!

thevoyagersworkshop.com/produc

A picture of a printer Dragonbane session tracker alongside my custom hand carved dice box featuring a demon’s head on the cover.
#rpg#gmtools#tracker
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Mix Mistress Alice💄

"Police officers and employees misusing access to police database now account for over half of all cybercrime pros-ecutions in the UK. The harms this can cause are considerable.
Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow for greater access to communication data."—Alice Hutchings [Cambridge Cybercrime Centre]

Police Behaving Badly >

cl.cam.ac.uk/~ah793/papers/202

#PDF#cybercrime#police
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Bertrand Caron

Notre version 1 de la politique de formats #BnF ne disposait pas de fiche sur le format #PDF. La nouvelle en aura une, et en voici la teneur dans une version encore à valider :

github.com/hackathonBnF/Fiches

Il y aurait encore beaucoup plus à dire sur ce format mais il faut bien commencer quelque part. J'ai l'audace de penser qu'elle apporte un petit quelque chose - elle est en français, elle est assez pratique et elle tente d'être abordable.

GitHubPDFDescription des formats de fichier. Contribute to hackathonBnF/FichesFormat development by creating an account on GitHub.
#DigiPres_FR
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Mark Wieczorek

Can someone explain to me why the portable document format (#PDF) is no longer as portable as it used to be? I have rarely encountered any serious issues since it was created in the 1990s. But over the past year or so, I have been increasingly encountering all kinds of issues with compatibility, printing, transparency, fill colors not being respective, color map interpolation issues, etc. Just today I needed to convert a PDF to PNG so that I could share it. WTF?

#enshittification
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