<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> awww, thanks so much! It was a true passion project for me, I wanted to write this for many years and I was lucky to find a supervisor that let me do it outside their immediate technical expertise. Just wish I had found a job where I could use this more…</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@salkinium" class="u-url mention">@<span>salkinium</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> I skimmed it and that&#39;s absolutely incredible, amazing work</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@salkinium" class="u-url mention">@<span>salkinium</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> no explanation needed for me, I am *extremely* sold on this alreadyt</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> My thesis contains a little more technical detail, in case you want to grok the converter better: <a href="https://salkinium.com/master.pdf#page=73" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">salkinium.com/master.pdf#page=</span><span class="invisible">73</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> Very nice .3.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> yes very! Sadly in the age of AI startups kinda hard to explain to people the value of a *manually crafted* PDF-&gt;HTML converter. The difficult part is the semantic interpretation of the tables anyways, but that often gets lost cos it&#39;s the boring work where you have to think about ontologies.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@salkinium" class="u-url mention">@<span>salkinium</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> oh this is incredibly exciting</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@azonenberg" class="u-url mention">@<span>azonenberg</span></a></span> It&#39;s also super accurate compared to the PDF: 99.88% match between that database and the Datasheets.<br />Paper: <a href="https://salkinium.com/hp23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">salkinium.com/hp23.pdf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br />Code: <a href="https://data.modm.io" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">data.modm.io</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@salkinium" class="u-url mention">@<span>salkinium</span></a></span> If I had known that existed earlier, would have been useful.</p><p>At this point I think it would take less time to finish doing the manual data entry than to write a parser + generator the way I want.</p>