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PDF Slurping

I’ve been using Advantage Archives for looking at the newspaper archives of a number of different libraries as a part of genealogy research.

The trouble is that each library has a slightly different UI for browsing these newspapers, and the experience can be fairly cumbersome. Ultimately, you can download a PDF if you want, but all the clicking around still makes the process slow and frustrating.

Of course the built-in MacOS Preview tool can show you PDFs, too, and it’s navigation/zoom interface is easier, too (especially using pinch-to-zoom, etc).