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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Fixed. Full details in the commit here: https://github.com/simoneamico-ux-dev/veil/commit/9d09d9c In short, by checking 3 simple signals veil can now distinguish a scan with overlaid OCR text from a native PD
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Thanks, glad it's helping your eyes!
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   I come from that world myself, my first iPod Touch 4G jailbroken with Cydia at age 9 is what got me interested in how things work under the hood. So the question makes me smile. I've never tested on e-Ink. What I can tell you is that f
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Thanks, I deeply agree. It's Alan Cooper's concept in About Face, where he says that to design well you need to take the role of the apprentice alongside the master, meaning observe how they work, understand their frustrations bef
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Thanks for the report, you found a real bug. That document is a scan processed with Adobe Paper Capture, which adds an invisible OCR text layer on top of the scanned image. Veil sees that text and treats the PDF as native, so it protects th
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Thanks! Couldn't agree more
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Thanks, really appreciate it. Hearing that it solves a real problem means a lot to me. Running locally is definitely about privacy, but it partly comes from my past working in a factory where the network was unreliable, so I was basically f
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   Thanks! I'm curious to see how the comparison goes, especially on papers with lots of images and color charts. Let me know how it goes
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   by simoneamico 6mo ago

   This means a lot, thank you. "The original vision for apps" is exactly the philosophy I built it with. I invested a lot in the service worker and iOS rendering (smaller canvas pool, DPR capped at 2, periodic engine reset to stay u
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    by simoneamico 6mo ago

    It's not resistance toward AI. Machine learning isn't among my current skills and I preferred to build with tools I could maintain and debug on my own, but the door isn't closed. Thank you for pushing on this point.
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    by simoneamico 6mo ago

    Really appreciate this AbanoubRodolf, thank you. The brightness analysis code and the image bounds are both already in the project, I just never connected the two. The distance between where I am and where you're suggesting I go is rea
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    by simoneamico 6mo ago

    Actually, raster images are never inverted, they're protected. The CSS filter: invert() hits the entire canvas (text and images together), then the overlay paints the original image pixels back on top, restoring them. The result is: in
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    by simoneamico 6mo ago

    That really means a lot, ainch. I hope it makes your late-night sessions a little more bearable. If you find anything that doesn't work well with the papers you read, keep me posted
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    by simoneamico 6mo ago

    That's actually exactly where I started. The initial idea involved a YOLO nano model to classify images, deciding what to invert and what not to. It worked as a concept, but during the feasibility analysis I realized that for native PD
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    Show HN: Veil – Dark mode PDFs without destroying images, runs in the browser(veil.simoneamico.com)

    100 points by simoneamico 6mo ago|29 comments