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Archive for October 13th, 2026

GitHub – lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/13

On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub.

It has an overhauled pdftotext that adds OCR to the regular poppler version.

This is useful when you cannot remove DRM or password from a PDF and regular poppler pdftohtml -nodrm as a poor man’s alternative fails and you do not want to go the [Wayback/Archive] Unlock PDF files. Remove PDF password route.

My prior blog posts having poppler information:

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An end to typographic widows on the web | Clagnut by Richard Rutter

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/13

A few years ago, [Wayback/Archive] An end to typographic widows on the web | Clagnut by Richard Rutter talked about the CSS style text-wrap:balance and wished for text-wrap:pretty.

By now, most browsers should have implemented both and – for body text – I would recommend setting them as default.

Rendering will be a tad slower, but you will hardly see any orphan words on the rendered last line of a paragraph.

Widows – the dangling line on a new page – is another thing, though people seem to confuse them according to Widows and orphans – Wikipedia (:

Via:

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