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akerstentoday at 12:14 AM1 replyview on HN

I assume they mean "upload to drive and use the web based reader to view the PDF," not "upload to drive and download it again"


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gleenntoday at 1:10 AM

And what special sauce does the web preview use? At some point, someone has to actually parse and process the data. I feel like on a tech site like Hacker News, speculating that Google has somehow done a perfect job of preventing malicious PDFs beckons the question: how do you actually do that and prove that it's safe? And is that even possible in perpetuity?

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