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Trying to fill out a PDF with AI

Daniel Lockyer, a user on X, spent three hours developing an AI skill to reliably fill out PDF forms, despite criticism that manually completing the forms would take only one minute. Lockyer's effort highlights the challenges of PDF parsing and the potential for AI to automate form-filling tasks.

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Trying to fill out a PDF with AI
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  • people laughed at me because I spent like 3 hours iterating on a skill that can fill out most forms reliably and get the alignment right instead of just doing it myself which takes 1 min
  • Why not just convert to docsx fill then convert back to pdf
  • dude pdf is such an unfriendly format, crazy how it’s gained such dominance, have you ever explored parsing pdfs? its so long
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