<h1 id="pdf-recovery">PDF Recovery<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#pdf-recovery"></a></h1>
Recovering the semantic information embedded in PDFs, reconstructing models notated inside.
Clipping
Symbolic augmentation
Explode symbol table
Parsing the original LaTeX?
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<a href="https://scholarphi.org/">ScholarPhi</a>
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<li>It's striking that the authors first <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05129">wrote an overview paper</a> before they dove in. This is a useful process <a href="/inquiry/notes/ff0041ed-4152-4d23-b840-d10be5de3574">Overview Works</a> that lots of academics do.</li>
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Frode Hegland's <a href="https://visual-meta.info/">Visual Meta</a>
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PDF Recovery


This is [Max Krieger](https://a9.io)'s "inquiry" page. I guess it's like a [Digital Garden](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners). But I'm not trying to upload my Second Brain to it. Just want to share some half-baked ideas. One source of inspiration for this was Kevin Lynagh's ["Collaboration ideas"](https://kevinlynagh.com/ideas/). See also Sharif Shameem's ["Questions"](https://sharif.io/questions/).

It was made with [Dendron](https://dendron.so).

Take everything I write here (well, everywhere) with a grain of salt. That said I'm always happy to talk about anything on here.

The pages definitely don't adhere to [Andy's Evergreen Notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z4SDCZQeRo4xFEQ8H4qrSqd68ucpgE6LU155C) pattern, I hope one day they do.

Feel free to add [a PR or issue to the repo](https://github.com/maxkrieger/inquiry) to discuss any of these in public!

## Guide

Here are some of my favorite/extensive pages:

- [[Linear algebra as spreadsheet|projects.linear-algebra-spreadsheet]]
- [[Domain learning for computational microworlds|rethinking-media.microworld-languages]]
- [[Linux DE prototyping|projects.linux-desktop]]
- [[System Archaeology|projects.system-archaeology]]

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