Just bagged two assists on his Arsenal debut.
I know it can be a sore point when young players don't achieve their potential with us, but I'm proud of the lad. Glad he's put in the work to fulfil his potential and hope this is only the start of a great season for him with Arsenal.
Most design inspiration I find online is for SaaS platforms, or agency or brochure websites. Always flashy animations or videos and very image heavy.
I am building an academic website for a 150 year old institution. Our core audience is 70 year old history professors. They don't want flashy, they want functional and familiar.
The problem is that the institution is undergoing a necessary digital transformation. Membership and subscriptions will be managed online through the website in future, and I have been tasked with coming up with something that won't alienate our rather conservative members.
In terms of functionality, in addition to authentication flows, there will also be an e-commerce component, and a searchable wiki resource centre with the institution's published materials.
To give an example of the kind of restrictions I'm working with, the website must use a specific serif font because that is the font the institution has used in all of its published works for the past 50+ years.
I want to build a PKM from a collection of a few thousand PDFs, but most strategies involve working with markdown from the beginning. So what's the best strategies for converting PDFs into markdown? Mostly my docs are academic journal articles, but I have some full-length books, memoirs, biographies, etc. too.
I found a tool called openkb, which uses a VLM to summarise the texts and build wikilinks. But it seems very brittle, and doesn't store the full text. Other forms of OCR, such as Tesseract, etc. seem to struggle hard with footnotes and endnotes, and other formatting issues.
So does anybody here have experience starting from PDFs when setting out to build a PKM? I'd love to hear what works for you.
I have a few thousand PDFs. This is cool, but I want to be able to do stuff with all of this info, rather than just open it in a PDF Reader. Ideally, I want to be able to load it into an Obsidian Vault, but this requires extracting the text and converting it into markdown. But I'm not having much luck with this. The biggest problems are figuring out how to handle footnotes and endnotes (citations), as well as reliably capturing images, figures, etc.
I've had a quick look online, and most discussions just say capturing footnotes is "hard". And then there is a lot of discussion about capturing graph data, etc. which is less important to me.
There must be other people who would prefer to store their texts as markdown than PDF, but I can't seem to find anybody working on solutions to this problem. Does anybody here have any ideas or achieved something like this?