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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I don't read German, but I was curious and wanted to let an LLM translate it at least a little. They published a PDF which has full-page images in it. Why? It's utterly perplexing to publish something to the internet that way. It's like having the ability to share a stone tablet, but instead you take a picture of it and put that behind glass with a filter so that it can only be viewed form certain angles.

Sometimes, I don't understand Germans.

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Perhaps that was exactly the intent, to ensure that only actual humans read the content? Germans certainly are a breed of their own, but if they (generally speaking, of course) are not ones to do something odd like that without intent.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Perhaps that was exactly the intent, to ensure that only actual humans read the content?

If that's the case, it has the opposite effect. Humans generally benefit from being able to select text and not just read from an image. It's of course especially important for blind people.

Meanwhile computers can easily read images via OCR algorithms.

[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't intentional. One of the authors wrote on Mastodon that there's "something wrong with the text layers" and the Media Lab is working on it.

It seems like they outsourced the pdf creation to someone who doesn't know how to properly create pdf's or the wrong version got published, which I'm suspecting because the title of the pdf is "layout draft 2024-12-16".

@atro_city@fedia.io @UNY0N@lemmy.wtf

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Good to know. Thanks. I'll wait on the next post when the fixed version has been uploaded.

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