robinhowlett
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Comment · 1 year ago
This looks excellent - i've been looking for a timeline-based, simple-entry tool like this. Well done.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for the links - agree about the (x,y,text) callout but other metadata like font size can be useful too.
Regexes have limitations but I was able them to leverage them sufficiently for PDFs from a single source.
I parsed over 1 million PDFs that had a fairly complex layout using Apache PDFBox and wrote about it here: https://www.robinhowlett.com/blog/2019/11/29/parsing-structu...
Comment · 7 years ago
Disclaimer: written by CEO of my company
Comment · 8 years ago
It's funny how this area seems to attract titles like this. I used the same for my blog post, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About SSL (but Were Afraid to Ask)"
http://www.robinhowlett.com/blog/2016/01/05/everything-you-e...
Disclaimer: I write blog posts to figure out if I understand something correctly and appreciate any and all feedback, negative or positive.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's a question I've asked myself too. I've also wondered how often others are being aggressively pursued by former colleagues to join them at another company. I've seen team strongly believe they hire strong candidates only, but rarely seem to pursue these same people after moving to a new company.
Comment · 8 years ago
This comment resonates more than any other. I absolutely agree with it. A complete demarcation in my life's focus and goals before getting married and, especially, having children.
Comment · 8 years ago
I got into a similar pickle recently and did some press about it: http://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/getting-from-cease-and-...
I'm also working on a Chrome Extension that modifies the functionality of a website, but this is giving me second thoughts.