Reverse Engineering iWork
The app I’m working on ingests a lot of files, and there’s no good solution for parsing .key, .numbers, or .pages files. Every existing approach requires you to first export your document to PDF (or some other format), then upload it for server-side processing. At that point, you’re either running it through a vision model or a PDF parser, both of which lose significant information or don’t work particularly well.This isn’t my first time solving distribution problems by going directly to the sou...
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