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by niknikson 3y ago
Really appreciate this article and wanted to add a few of my thoughts. I’ve been an inhouse marketer in the Dev Tool space for 2 different SDK companies over the last 5 years. The majority of my focus has been on paid / organic search
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How a Tech Writer Tried to Build a Chatbot with OpenAI & Lived to Tell the Tale(pspdfkit.com)
2 points by niknikson 3y ago|0 comments
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How to automate facial redaction in PDFs(pdftron.com)
1 points by niknikson 6y ago|0 comments
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by niknikson 6y ago
Thanks for your feedback and your questions Adam! PDF.js Express has been in development since early 2019. We have a number of customers signed up and using it in production, and so far the feedback has been really positive. Your website lo
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by niknikson 6y ago
Yes, I am employed by PDFTron. I've been leading this project since early 2019.
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by niknikson 6y ago
Our intention with PDF.js Express is to provide a solution that meets a market need for a PDF.js viewer with out-of-the-box features. Building this viewer that wraps around the PDF.js engine was no small task and we do hope that it will pro
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by niknikson 6y ago
Thank you for your feedback and question. My apologies if it’s unclear. The source code for the UI is available on GitHub [1], but is minified in the download package for efficiency. Note that even though the code is "open source"
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by niknikson 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We are not part of the core pdf.js team. In regards to pricing we found that for some companies creating their own viewer requires a fair amount of upfront resources - after trying to create their own viewers they r
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by niknikson 6y ago
The biggest challenge to pricing based on volume is the exercise of tracking usage. In a typical SAAS product determining usages is fairly linear. For PDF.js Express because you would be deploying from your environment we would not have an
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by niknikson 6y ago
Yes, unfortunately the printing is done with a bitmap because of the lack of browser APIs to print scalable canvas content. It looks like our default print quality is a bit on the low side though, so we'll probably change that. You can
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by niknikson 6y ago
We can extract text and form data -- we'll try to get some documentation around that in the next week or so.
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by niknikson 6y ago
Yes, that's correct. It's not supported by PDF.js [1]. But the good news is that it looks like Adobe is finally moving away from their proprietary XFA format, with the introduction of their forms extension. [1] https:/&#x2F
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Show HN: Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling
334 points by niknikson 6y ago|132 comments
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by niknikson 7y ago
Well said. Being humble is incredibly important. I think of it in the context of having a beginners mind: having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions. I try to remind myself that every person I meet has something t
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by niknikson 7y ago
Google AdWords campaign is good way to gauge market demand. Key is to identify granular high intent keywords in your market and setup your campaign to only target those keywords. If you are able to capture a decent amount of exact keyword s
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by niknikson 7y ago
Huge kudos to the author for taking the time to investigate this issue. Interestingly in the book Freakeconomics from 2005 they did an analysis on car seats and found that after 2 years of age they don't make much of a difference. Duri
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by niknikson 7y ago
Wayfair - you can listen to the NPR podcast "How I built this" where they talk about building their entire business around domain names and pay-per-click advertising (7 billion market cap).
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by niknikson 7y ago
Timelines kill me. When I'm half way through a project I can tell you exactly when it's going to be done. Or I can plan the shit out of it upfront and give you an accurate timeline but that doesn't fly because you need the ti
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How to Open 1GB+ PDFs in a Mobile or Browser App(pdftron.com)
3 points by niknikson 7y ago|0 comments