Support PDF file uploads

aalemayhu commented 6 months ago

People are uploading PDF files and those are not supported at all and will result in no flashcards generated. I am thinking of adding some basic content analysis and then generate flashcards that. This is a better approach then the current failed uploads. Of course this adds complexity but there are open source alternatives out there to do the heavy lifting.

Interesting projects

Apache Tika - a content analysis toolkit
Poppler - Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base.
Apache PDFBox - open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.
pdfminer.six - community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner.

aalemayhu commented 6 months ago

Another issue is password protected files, should that be done with this or seperately?

aalemayhu commented 1 month ago

This is being worked on and has been moved to private Jira due to some PDF documents being sensitive

2anki / server

Support PDF file uploads #1471

Interesting projects