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DESCRIPTION:The Dutch national library has website where you can download P
 DFs of old books. The PDFs are scans of the paper books. This is not the b
 est format to read the books\, especially if you own an E-Reader and want 
 to use that.\nIn 2025 it should be possible to use AI for this right? This
  talk is about the exploration how well AI can already do this. It is actu
 ally possible to some degree to transfer those scans to readable PDFs on y
 our local computer\, even on a lowly GTX970 or with just the CPU.\nHowever
  there are definately caveats. So I wrote some scripts to help with the co
 nversion. The results of the scripts definitely need manual cleanup after\
 , but the final result is a proper Epub. There are even some scripts to mo
 dernise the spelling of the documents. The base is a tab delimited file wh
 ich I keep an a public gitlab site which grows each time I convert a PDF.\
 nAll can be found on Gitlab with an accompanying website at https://www.li
 brelivre.nl. \n\nAccording to the Dutch copyrights law\, 70 years after th
 e death author they enter the public domain. Unfortenately the terms of us
 e of the website of the national library will not let you use them freely 
 until 140 years after the publication. We will discuss this as well.\n\nSo
  in this talk\, the state of AI to convert PDFs to Epubs will be discussse
 d\, the viability to do this on your own hardware including results of per
 formance tests and legal matters will be discussed.
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LOCATION:Room 2
SUMMARY:Librelivre.nl PDF to Epub conversion on a GTX 970 - Albert Wittevee
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URL:https://cfp.nluug.nl/nluug-najaarsconferentie-2025/talk/7LWLZU/
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