{"id":30220,"date":"2020-09-23T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30220"},"modified":"2020-09-23T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:50:26","slug":"pdf-liquid-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/23\/pdf-liquid-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF Liquid Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adobe.com\/en\/2020\/09\/23\/adobe-unveils-ambitious-multi-year-vision-for-pdf-introduces-liquid-mode.html\">Adobe<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24568695\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.adobe.com\/en\/2020\/09\/23\/adobe-unveils-ambitious-multi-year-vision-for-pdf-introduces-liquid-mode.html\"><p>Building on this continued momentum, today we&rsquo;re excited to unveil Liquid Mode &mdash; the first step in a multi-year vision to fundamentally change the way people consume digital documents, and how organizations extract document intelligence to gain a competitive advantage. Leveraging the power of Adobe Sensei &mdash; our cutting-edge AI framework &mdash; to understand the structure of PDFs, we have begun to reimagine how people read and interact with digital documents, starting with reinventing mobile productivity beyond the 8.5x11 page.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Manifesting the future of PDF, Liquid Mode delivers a breakthrough reading experience that enables a much easier way to read documents on mobile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90553978\/adobe-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-pdfs-make-sense-on-a-phone\">Harry McCracken<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90553978\/adobe-finally-figured-out-how-to-make-pdfs-make-sense-on-a-phone\"><p>In its initial form, Liquid Mode is a first pass at a long-term challenge. It doesn&rsquo;t yet support some of the most familiar types of PDFs, such as forms, slideshows, scans, and files that are over 10 MB or 200 pages. It also rejected the PDFs I&rsquo;d made using iOS&rsquo;s screenshot feature, perhaps because they were too complex. Still, when it worked, it achieved the formerly impossible: It made reading a PDF on a phone . . . actually pretty pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The company flirted with the idea of creating an all-new format that was &ldquo;much richer, much better,&rdquo; and not necessarily compatible with PDF as we know it. &ldquo;We did some engineering work,&rdquo; Parasnis says. But it quickly concluded that PDF&rsquo;s compatibility and pervasiveness were such powerful assets that breaking them on purpose would be a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Which brings up another question: Will all those folks who read PDFs in non-Adobe software ever get the chance to view them in Liquid Mode? For now, the feature is exclusive to Adobe&rsquo;s Reader app[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The core problem is that PDF stores text based on how it&rsquo;s laid out rather than based on the logical sequence of characters. So Adobe has to use AI to try to recover the original structure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe (Hacker News): Building on this continued momentum, today we&rsquo;re excited to unveil Liquid Mode &mdash; the first step in a multi-year vision to fundamentally change the way people consume digital documents, and how organizations extract document intelligence to gain a competitive advantage. Leveraging the power of Adobe Sensei &mdash; our cutting-edge AI framework &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-23T20:50:30Z","apple_news_api_id":"dbc62a71-f09c-452b-96f1-56e01d1bd0b5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-23T20:50:30Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A28YqcfCcRSuW8VbgHRvQtQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[447,1987,1351,31,30,345],"class_list":["post-30220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-reader","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-pdf"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30221,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30220\/revisions\/30221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}