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Level UI • 23 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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yanwang • 5 days • in Articles • 7 min read
Fine in Chrome, broken in Preview: two PDFKit gotchas for anyone who writes PDFs
This article was originally published on Hashnode: Fine in Chrome, broken in Previewhttps://wangyan.hashnode.dev/fine-in-chrome-broken-in-preview-two-pdfkit-gotchas-for-anyone-who-writes-pdfs. It is republished here with light edits. > Disclosure: ...
  • pdf
  • javascript
  • swift
  • macos
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NiceDayUp • Sep 25 • in Articles • 2 min read
Designing a Clear Upload-to-Export Flow for Four Document Jobs
An upload control can look simple while hiding a product decision: what does the person want to accomplish with the file? A scanned page, a photo of a document, searchable text, and a spreadsheet-ready receipt are related, but they are not the same j...
  • product-design
  • productivity
  • pdf
  • ocr
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DHSeaDev • Sep 17 • in Articles • 8 min read
Shipping Internal Tools: Why Build Automation Matters More Than Code Quality
A practitioner's guide to shipping PDF tools and automation to non-technical users. Lessons from three years of production tooling at a legal process serving company. The Setup: Why This Matters I've been building PDF tools for a legal process se...
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  • windows
  • pdf
  • python
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robinvdvleuten • Sep 16 • in Articles • 9 min read
One report, rendered to HTML, PDF and Excel without a headless browser
The ticket says "let customers export their statement." You read it twice looking for the catch, because there doesn't seem to be one. Then the follow-ups arrive. It should look right on screen. It should print to a PDF with the column headers repeat...
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  • webdev
  • pdf
  • javascript
  • productivity
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magics90036 • Sep 3 • in Launches • 1 min read
Magics PDF Converter
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  • converter
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Petr Dev • Aug 20 • in Articles • 4 min read
Making a screenshot PDF searchable — no OCR, because we rendered the page
If you generate PDFs from web pages by screenshotting them, you've probably hit this: the PDF looks perfect and is completely useless the moment you want to use the text. Ctrl+F finds nothing. You can't copy a sentence. A screen reader opens the do...
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  • javascript
  • pdf
  • nodejs
  • puppeteer
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Tom Smithverified • 19 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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sunshey • Jun 13 • in Articles • 3 min read
How to Convert Word to PDF in the Browser with Vue 3, mammoth, and html2pdf.js
Converting Word documents to PDFs on the server is the classic approach: upload the file, run LibreOffice or a cloud API, send the result back. But that means your users’ resumes, contracts, and reports touch your infrastructure. I wanted something ...
  • javascript
  • vue
  • pdf
  • webdev
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sunshey • Jun 12 • in Articles • 6 min read
How to Split PDF Files in the Browser (No Server Required)
In the last posthttps://dev.to/sunshey/how-to-merge-pdf-files-in-the-browser-no-server-required-3kjp, I covered merging PDFs in the browser using pdf-lib. Today we're doing the opposite: splitting them. Splitting is surprisingly common: A 200-page ...
  • webdev
  • javascript
  • pdf
  • tutorial
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Iurii Rogulia • May 27 • in Articles • 8 min read
Binary PDF Modification Detection: How It Works and Where It Fails
The question sounds simple: has this PDF been edited after it was originally created? The answer, it turns out, requires understanding how PDF files store their history at the byte level. This article explains the technical approach behind binary PD...
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  • pdf
  • security
  • forensic
  • fraud
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Pocket Portfolio • May 6 • in Articles • 1 min read
[ROADMAP] Beyond the CSV: Statements as a Product Surface
Beyond the CSV: Statements as a Product Surface Part 10 looks past today’s CSV importers at broker statements often PDF. The architecture below is directional: we are spelling out constraints and a credible pipeline, not announcing a finished PDF-...
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  • software-engineering
  • finance
  • pdf
  • roadmap
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Matthew Patel • Mar 23 • in Articles • 2 min read
The document could not be saved. A number is out of range- Fixed
The 'The document could not be saved. A number is out of range error happens when Acrobat detects an issue with the PDF file's underlying structure. The solution for this problem is exporting a PDF to PostScript, and then convert the PostScript fil...
  • pdf
  • acrobat
  • adobe
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jalalmanafi • Mar 19 • in Articles • 4 min read
Auto-Generate PDF Receipts After Stripe Payments
Every app that takes payments needs to send receipts. Stripe has built-in receipts, but they're Stripe-branded and limited. If you need custom receipts — with your company info, tax breakdowns, payment details — you have to generate them yourself. T...
  • stripe
  • pdf
  • devtools
  • javascript
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jalalmanafi • Mar 19 • in Articles • 1 min read
We Added a Dashboard and Custom Branding to Our JSON-to-PDF API
Two weeks ago Kagyz was a simple API: send JSON, get a PDF. That's still the core, but we just shipped two features that make it feel like a real product. Dashboard Every API product needs a dashboard eventually. Ours lives at app.kagyz.com and cov...
  • pdf
  • webdev
  • saas
  • productivity
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jalalmanafi • Mar 19 • in Articles • 5 min read
Kagyz vs PDFShift vs CraftMyPDF — Which PDF API Should You Use?
I spent a lot of time evaluating PDF generation APIs before building my own. Here's an honest comparison of three tools — what they're good at, where they fall short, and who each one is for. The Short Version | | Kagyz | PDFShift | CraftMyPDF | |-...
  • webdev
  • api
  • saas
  • pdf
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Ifeanyi • Mar 19, 2025 • in Tutorials • 2 min read
Easily Convert PDF Files to Word Documents in R
!Convert to Docx R package1 In this post, I will show you how you can very easily convert your PDF files into Word documents in the R programming language using the Convert2Docx2 R package. Convert2Docx is a lightweight R package that R developer...
  • r
  • python
  • pdf
  • docx
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