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Uploading or embed pdfs
Source: outline/outline#1788 · opened by @mrchrisadams
Hi there,
I had an assumption that if I could upload images to outline, I'd also be able to upload PDFs, but this turns out not to be the case.
While I know a key idea for outline is having a searchable knowledge base, I found myself wishing I could upload PDFs pretty quickly, for work that we don't change, might want to be able to access in future.
You could even make it searchable, presumably - either with brute force, by searching using RGA each time across all the PDFs (probably not a good idea):
Or something more sensible, like pulling out the text on upload with PDF.js, and dumping that into the full-text search index provided by Postgres.
I had a quick look around, but I couldn't figure out where the model for sequelize was, to see what database features of postgres are in use.
I had an assumption that if I could upload images to outline, I'd also be able to upload PDFs, but this turns out not to be the case.
While I know a key idea for outline is having a searchable knowledge base, I found myself wishing I could upload PDFs pretty quickly, for work that we don't change, might want to be able to access in future.
You could even make it searchable, presumably - either with brute force, by searching using RGA each time across all the PDFs (probably not a good idea):
Or something more sensible, like pulling out the text on upload with PDF.js, and dumping that into the full-text search index provided by Postgres.
I had a quick look around, but I couldn't figure out where the model for sequelize was, to see what database features of postgres are in use.
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