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Rather than relying on AI to directly manipulate sensitive files, the author successfully leveraged a chatbot to generate a custom Python script that safely processed PDFs. This approach demonstrates a practical workflow where AI acts as a code generator to build deterministic tools, avoiding the non-deterministic inconsistencies often found when using AI directly for file editing. For developers and power users, this highlights a shift toward using LLMs to automate the creation of specialized utilities rather than treating them as direct editors.

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I've reviewed every PDF editor out there - then I had ChatGPT build me a better one

ZDNetJune 15, 20267 min read

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely.

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Yellow sheet music can confuse playback apps. A command-line Python script solved the PDF problem. Sometimes AI is best used to write the tool. Recently, my wife, Denise, started singing with her church's choir. She has a lovely singing voice. She needed to practice all the new songs. The songs came in booklets, about the size of a trade paperback, printed on yellow paper. She wanted to scan those booklets into her computer as a PDF, remove the color, and reprint them larger, on 8.5-by-11-inch paper so she wouldn't have to wear her reading glasses to see them. So one afternoon she came to me. She asked how she could remove the yellow background, but preserve the music itself,…

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