Hacker News Reader

Maybe add some warning text that it only works for pre-existing text in a PDF, i.e no OCR for PDFs which consist of images.

View on HN

This does work impressively fast until you realise that it isn't doing any OCR, as parent comment points out.

The site also throws up a certificate error which might make some people nervous; "Technical Details: pdftotext.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: www.github.com, .github.com, .github.io, *.githubusercontent.com "

I think if you put a note on the site explaining what you are trying to do [practice running microsites on the cheap etc] that visitors would be reassured.

That's interesting, I haven't considered certificates at all. Where are you getting these errors? My intention was to serve pdftotext.org strictly over plain old http. Are you using HTTPS Everywhere or similar?

I'm not using it on this pc - I get the error after clicking on the link on the bottom left hand side of the page.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com