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FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What you recommend in terms of offline open-source converters?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pandoc for documents, ffmpeg for video , imagemagick for images

[–] prayer 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What image types are you using that ffmpeg can't convert? To my knowledge it works for almost anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Gonna be honest, never used ffmpeg for images lol. I often take images from PDFs that have transparency (rpg books to import into my vtt) and they come out of pdfimages with an opaque greyscale alpha mask and an opaque image. I found it easy to apply the mask with imagemagick, though. Ffmpeg can probably do it but just never had a use case. I just use cwebp to convert because that's my primary use-case: converting pngs to lossy webp files and cwebp is good enough for me for that:)

[–] prayer 1 points 3 days ago

Images from PDFs, wasn't thinking about that. I normally work with just image files. Cool!

[–] AppearanceBoring9229 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What are you looking to convert?

Usually what i do is look for any converter and look for open source alternatives to it on alternativeto.net and hopefully one of the top 3 alternatives fits your use case

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Psst the URL is: https://alternativeto.net/ I always stop here first to research what software options there are available and also learning what other people are using. Extremely useful and trustworthy site!

[–] AppearanceBoring9229 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks i dropped the "to"