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A practical hub for document creation, formatting, conversion, and printing workflows using Markdown, LaTeX, PDF tools, and automation.

Creating custom planner inserts combines the satisfaction of analog planning with the flexibility of digital design tools. Here are just the notes on printing them.

PDFMiner.six is a powerful Python library for extracting text, metadata, and layout information from PDF documents.

Tables are one of the most powerful features in Markdown for organizing and presenting structured data. Whether you’re creating technical documentation, README files, or blog posts, understanding how to properly format tables can significantly improve your content’s readability and professionalism.

Converting LaTeX documents to Markdown has become essential for modern publishing workflows, integrating static site generators, documentation platforms, and version control systems while maintaining readability and simplicity.

Converting HTML to Markdown is a fundamental task in modern development workflows, particularly when preparing web content for Large Language Models (LLMs), documentation systems, or static site generators like Hugo.

Converting Word documents to Markdown format is a very common task for technical writers, developers, and content creators who want to move their content to platforms with Markdown (like GitHub, GitLab, static site generators like Hugo).

If you write technical docs, papers, or books on Windows, you’ll almost certainly choose one of three LaTeX distributions for Windows 11.

Here I’m reviewing Codeblock options in Markdown—how to specify the programming language, diff formatting and code block filename.

Generating PDF Reports Using Python

Python, with its extensive libraries and modules, offers powerful tools for generating professional PDF reports. This guide explores various methods to create PDF documents using Python, covering popular libraries like ReportLab, FPDF, Xhtml2pdf, WeasyPrint, Jinja2, pdf-reports and PdfKit.

In the Ollama models library there are models that able convert HTML content to Markdown, which is useful for content conversion tasks.

Sometimes there is a real need to save images from a PDF without screenshotting or rendering the PDF on screen. pdfimages helps with that.

Or another day you want to extract image and text from the pdf.

LaTeX is a typesetting system suited for preparing nice-looking complex documents. LaTeX offers several document classes that determine the overall structure and formatting of a document.

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting system widely used for creating professional documents with complex formatting, like math formulae, especially in academic domains. Here’s a cheat sheet for LaTeX typesetting.

If you could not find suitable blank refills for your planner, you can DIY them using MS Word or LaTeX. See here how to create a Bill Tracker Filofax insert in A5 size with LaTeX.