CMake manpages are about the most verbose manpages on the planet.
All I wanted to do was import an external project and customise the build options without having to go and add files into the child project / patch them / whatever.
Getting copies of annual returns and company information from Companies House is easy. Searching the data in those returns isn’t quite so easy.
CH use a PDF format (PDF/A, akin to fax) that ensures maximum compatability.
I had a small project to display some simple stats for, for some static content sitting in an AWS S3 bucket. I could have forwarded everything to Elastic+Kibana and showed some fancy graphs and charts, but I was only being asked for what I could easily produce via AWStats.
This is more written as an aide-memoire to myself than anything. It’s a process I’m currently using for bulk-processing a set of documents of various forms (MS Word, PPT, PDF, LibreOffice etc), converting them all to PDF, running OCR on any embedded images and then sticking the end-result into Elasticsearch via Tika (not documented, plenty documentation elsewhere re this final step).
Note this requires Macports
It’s 3am and you’re hunting for that graph you clipped a couple of weeks ago. Report is due in for 10 the next morning. You swore up and down you’d never do this again, but here we are, can’t find the file or the reference.