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Comment on: Show HN: ReadKinetic – a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
Thanks. To be frank, the images and graphs are the weak spot at the moment. The parsers extract just the text layer and that’s the extent of it, so images are just discarded and you don’t even get told there was one.Tables are worse than dropped - PDF extraction de-flattens them into a stream of values in reading order, so you just get a torrent of disconnected numbers flitting past which don’t mean a great deal.I would read figures in the normal way for this type of book and then use the tool for the prose. It’s not really fixable at the format level too, there is no good way of showing a per