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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by TeMPOraL on Saturday February 25, 2017 @06:39AM (#13731144)
> It also allows you to do proper copy and paste, which is much saner than anything paper offers.

Technically it does that, yes. Rarely do I see people taking advantage of it, though; most of the times I tried to copy some text out of PDF, the result had to undergo a significant cleanup before becoming usable.

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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by saghm on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:01PM (#13735596)
I've had similar experiences, as well as worse; one PDF I got from a bank about my student loans a year or so back had ostensibly only text content, but none of it was even able to be selected.
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