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Re: Adobe is panicking

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On Fri, 10/9/2026 8:53 PM, ....winston wrote:
> On 10/09/2026 2:02 PM, dillinger wrote:
>> Op 09-10-2026 om 09:21 schreef ....winston:
>>> On 10/08/2026 7:29 PM, MegaNZ wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just 48 hours after Vibe released his products, Adobe called a special
>>>> board meeting and requested an urgent meeting with the Trump
>>>> administration to discuss ways to stop AI reverse-engineering Adobe
>>>> products.
>>>>
>>> Never happened.
>>> Made up, fictional scenario, exaggeration of tech commentary.
>>>   => Fake news, fake reporting, fake opinion, fake etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Viber is not a 'his'
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It definitely exists, just installed it on a virtual MX 25.
>> Very quick test shows it works, can't judge how good it is or how close
>> to the real thing, the last Photoshop I used was 5.5, 25 years ago.
> 
> The software was valid.
> 
> The commentary(special board meeting, request meet with the 'dear old uncle scam administration' was not(i.e. fake)
> 
> Vibe is not a 'his' (pronoun)
> Vibe, in this case(vibe-coding) is a noun.
> The 'his', iirc - creator/author of open-source Adobe alternative is Brandon Thomas
> 

I tried out PDFCraft.

Name: pdfcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64-portable.zip
Size: 54951540 bytes (52 MiB)
SHA256: 6BD2F7740708498CD8919007118C38CA86079963AE6407A08E2016D206351E98

It didn't work right away, when I wanted to do OCR on a scanner PDF.

This is my portable folder unpacked (it's in a VM). The Google AI result
in a search, reports that two files are needed. These might be Tensor models
of some sort, the files don't have anything inside resembling a title.

   C:\Users\Bullwinkle\Downloads\pdfcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64-portable

   Needs:

   https://ocrs-models.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/text-detection.rten
   https://ocrs-models.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/text-recognition.rten

Name: text-detection.rten
Size: 2510284 bytes (2451 KiB)
SHA256: F15CFB56BD02C4BF478A20343986504A1F01E1665C2B3A0AD66340F054B1B5CA

Name: text-recognition.rten
Size: 9716568 bytes (9488 KiB)
SHA256: E484866D4CCE403175BD8D00B128FEB08AB42E208DE30E42CD9889D8F1735A6E

Then, in a line of powershell, it needs an environment variable added.

   setx PDFCRAFT_MODELS "C:\Users\Bullwinkle\Downloads\pdfcraft-0.4.0-windows-x64-portable"

   .\pdfcraft.exe

After that, an attempt to OCR, adds Helvetica font text to the document.
The choice of Helvetica, having nothing to do with the font used
in a line of captured text.

So while the program has a pretty GUI, it's based on Electron (Chrome browser
engine, like a Webview2 sorta), and any time the mouse is over the program window,
all four cores of my VM session rail at 100%. It did not need access to
CUDA, to carry out the OCR activity.

Should Adobe be scared ? I don't think so. The OCR worked after a fashion,
but it is really no better than some Tesseract adventure. It is about
as useful as OCRmypdf.

   Paul

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Adobe is panicking MegaNZ <MegaNZ@newsgroups.com> - 2026-10-09 00:29 +0100
  Re: Adobe is panicking Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-09 01:59 -0400
    Re: Adobe is panicking Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-10-10 06:22 +0200
    Re: Adobe is panicking WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2026-10-11 10:13 -0400
  Re: Adobe is panicking "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-10-09 03:21 -0400
    Re: Adobe is panicking dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> - 2026-10-09 20:02 +0200
      Re: Adobe is panicking "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-10-09 20:53 -0400
        Re: Adobe is panicking Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-09 21:46 -0400
          Re: Adobe is panicking "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-10-13 13:49 -0400
            Re: Adobe is panicking Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-13 16:38 -0400
              Re: Adobe is panicking "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-10-15 11:35 -0400
                Re: Adobe is panicking "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-10-15 20:50 +0000
                Re: Adobe is panicking "....winston" <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2026-10-16 02:04 -0400
                [OT[: "24/7/365" (was: Re: Adobe is panicking) "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-16 08:16 +0100
                Re: Adobe is panicking "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-10-16 07:42 +0000
            Re: Adobe is panicking Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-10-13 18:52 -0700
  Re: Adobe is panicking Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-10-11 19:21 +0100
    Re: Adobe is panicking Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-11 22:39 +0100
      Re: Adobe is panicking Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-12 00:00 -0400
      Re: Adobe is panicking Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-10-12 14:06 +0100
        Re: Adobe is panicking Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-10-12 18:24 -0400
          Re: Adobe is panicking Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2026-10-15 23:15 +0100
            Re: Adobe is panicking "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-10-16 07:53 +0000

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