As a 5e refugee, I'm moving back in to games that are PDF-driven, and I find it frustrating that I lack a unified interface to (at least) search them.
Use case: I have 46 PDF files for Savage Rifts in a (cloud-backed) folder on a Windows machine and want to know if Archie Three (originally in Sourcebook One) is discussed.
What are you doing to solve this type of problem for yourself?
I've looked at Paperless, dumping them out to text, and importing them to OneNote.
I have about 2300 PDF files in my RPG share (mostly thanks to Humble Bundle, I'm sure), so a solution here is probably a good use of time...
DriveThru has a combination reader/collection keeper that has a search function. I didn't like it much, but it may hit your use-case spot on.
Haven't used it myself (yet) but PrivateGPT has a built in way to read your PDFs if you put them in a folder and tell it to use it.
https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT (https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT)
So you can use it for exactly that.
So I'm really old school but I keep the PDFs organized by simply sorting them into folders based system, then setting, the into the type of material it is. It's good enough for me in that regard.
As far as using the PDFs, I use a native Linux Document Viewer and it does everything I want including limited editing.
Quote from: mcbobbo on January 09, 2024, 02:27:46 PM
As a 5e refugee, I'm moving back in to games that are PDF-driven, and I find it frustrating that I lack a unified interface to (at least) search them.
Use case: I have 46 PDF files for Savage Rifts in a (cloud-backed) folder on a Windows machine and want to know if Archie Three (originally in Sourcebook One) is discussed.
What are you doing to solve this type of problem for yourself?
I've looked at Paperless, dumping them out to text, and importing them to OneNote.
I have about 2300 PDF files in my RPG share (mostly thanks to Humble Bundle, I'm sure), so a solution here is probably a good use of time...
Search is your friend.
https://www.floridabar.org/tech-tips/how-to-search-multiple-pdf-files-using-acrobat-reader/#:~:text=Open%20Acrobat%20or%20Acrobat%20Reader,term%20in%20the%20input%20box.
Quote from: Krazz on January 09, 2024, 03:46:25 PM
DriveThru has a combination reader/collection keeper that has a search function. I didn't like it much, but it may hit your use-case spot on.
Can you bring in PDFs that aren't from them?
Quote from: GeekyBugle on January 09, 2024, 04:01:40 PM
Haven't used it myself (yet) but PrivateGPT has a built in way to read your PDFs if you put them in a folder and tell it to use it.
https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT (https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT)
I'll give this a try...
Quote from: honeydipperdavid on January 09, 2024, 04:13:47 PMSearch is your friend.
https://www.floridabar.org/tech-tips/how-to-search-multiple-pdf-files-using-acrobat-reader/#:~:text=Open%20Acrobat%20or%20Acrobat%20Reader,term%20in%20the%20input%20box.
I don't know if you followed that link or not, but "open them all up at once and CTRL+F" is not viable. Did I mention there are 47 for Savage Rifts alone? 443 MBs.
Nothing that complex, I'm afraid. Though I used to use Apple OSX Automator to rename en masse my PDFs for adding system in the front of the name. That way I can quickly sort for dumping into folders (another Automator task, too).
Quote from: mcbobbo on January 09, 2024, 04:33:18 PM
Quote from: Krazz on January 09, 2024, 03:46:25 PM
DriveThru has a combination reader/collection keeper that has a search function. I didn't like it much, but it may hit your use-case spot on.
Can you bring in PDFs that aren't from them?
I don't believe so.
Quote from: GeekyBugle on January 09, 2024, 04:01:40 PM
Haven't used it myself (yet) but PrivateGPT has a built in way to read your PDFs if you put them in a folder and tell it to use it.
https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT (https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFiof0V3nhA
So you can use it for exactly that.
IT'S ALIVE!!! IT'S ALIVE!!!!
Loaded two documents and tested. Next I'm loading all the Rifts docs I have.
I may look at loading up only the player-facing information and plugging that into a Discord bot... MUWAHAHAHAA...
I organize mine manually. I was the tool all along!
I'm on day two and I've gotten much better results by limiting the content in the LLM's database. I made truncated versions of the Savage PDFs for them to use, and have fed those into the GPT thingy. Now I'm trying to hook that to Discord so they can query it with a '/rifts' command.
Needs to use curated data.
And it gets stuff wrong sometimes.
Not really the best tool for the purpose, but still very cool in a different way...
Discord integration is done. It's hackery, but as you can see from the attachment, there's some promise here...
Quote from: Hzilong on January 10, 2024, 03:08:25 PM
I organize mine manually. I was the tool all along!
Same here. And it is not a big chore. I never felt the need to use a tool.