NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

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I need to turn emails that have been printed to PDF, into .eml files I can browse and search with thunderbird. they're all in the same doc, pagination does not nec. correlate to email boundaries so you have to go off FROM headers instead for pagination

I am imagining a pandoc -> something -> pagination -> .eml (its a relatively simple format) chain

Can someone just like... do that for me. it's so much harder than the second set i could just load in thunderbird and do various sorts on.

don't use the converters you get from googling (they look like they're all for phishing corporate docs), only do this if you're willing to hand-write at least one .eml file, reply so there isn't duplicated labor

nbd if I end up having to do it eventually

I'm going to bed

if you need source to work on, they're https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/the-emails/

(But if you are going to analyze the emails, I implore you to read https://xtramagazine.com/power/detransition-terf-movement-elisa-shupe-247592 first, because it is key context for processing them)


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

If I'm understanding what you're asking correctly:

If they're all in one pdf, but that pdf contains text with all the from: etc shit required by the eml format, could its contents not simply be copied into a single text file, and then that file split into multiple eml files by a program, with a new file starting at every from: line?

(I haven't downloaded the emails to check if my assumptions here are accurate, since they're only available via torrent, and torrents make my Internet connection unusable for hours for some reason, or did the last several times I tried downloading one)